Carnaval 2010- World Carnival Dates, Schedules and Information

In Carnival days at Rio-de-Janeiro from Saturday to Tuesday, dances in the open-air are performed throughout the city. The whole city in fact the whole Brazil becomes colorful in the colors of carnival. The prominence is on let joy yourself and let enjoy each and everyone but naturally. The largest and most well thought-out dance celebration occurs on Cinelandia Square Rio.

With the exception of prearranged street dances, public also basically assemble outside small corner bars, get together and have enjoyment and excitement in the streets and everywhere. The venue which becomes a center of attraction of the largest crowd is outskirts of the Sambadrom, on carnival days.

All the rage street dances at Cinelandia

Daily Friday to Tuesday 5PM till 3 AM

The open-air small and gigantic dance parties continue for five days and nights to the sounds of celebrated orchestras, beats of drums and singers songs. These all are signs of carnival music and true spirit of Rio, revives the mood of the splendid carnival balls of the previous years and spreads the name and fame of Brazil’s liberal and laborious society.

There a stage is created on the square along with famous icons and the most celebrated singers of the decades of the beginning radio (from 1940’s to 60’s) old Brazilian samba music is played mainly and the crowd mostly consisting of elder and blue-collar people joins in and dances to the tunes of music whole night.

Location: Praca Floriano, Cinelandia, Central (Downtown)

Outer skirts of the Sambadrom

On Samba Parade (The Carnival) nights, not only gets over crowed within the Sambadrom, however before the beginning, for the duration of and after the Parade, millions of public equally of both the sexes assemble on the streets which did not get in there. These are also coupled by those who participate in the parade in costumes and simply want to party more or relax, make the overwhelming crowd still more colorful by their fancy-dresses. It converts the entire downtown region into an enormous sparkling open-air bar.