We have four days of festivities - from Saturday to Tuesday, usually

in February but sometimes it occurs in early March.

"School of samba" is a kind of a community association which have

from one to almost five thousands of members. People join a "school

of samba"  to have the opportunity to participate in an annual

iannual parade which is also a championship in which several schools

 fight for the first place. This parade takes place along an avenue

 called "Passarela do Samba".  On both sides of this avenue there 

are  bleachers (unexpensives seats) and boxes from which people

watch and applaude the parade.

Can you imagine this crowd passing right under your eyes, 

dancing and singing?

 Can you feel just a little bit of what happens at "Passarela do Samba"?

The blend of colors, the special costumes, the music, the creativity of 

alegoric cars makes this show an unforgetable experience!

Every school has a certain period of time to pass through the avenue
and it will be judge by several critics -  people chosen by their

expertise on each item on judgement which are: the costumes, the

music, the dancing, the cars, the percussion and so on.

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