Carnival 2025 samba queens set Rio ablaze in jaw-dropping costumes: PHOTOS
The Rio Carnival 2025 kicked off on Sunday night, March 2. The annual festival is renowned for its vibrant samba parades, ...
A samba school rises to Rio Carnival’s top league, bringing an economic boom to its poor residents
Carnival always breathes life into the economy of Vila Vintem, on Rio de Janeiro’s west side, but this year there’s even more ...
MercoPress7h
Rio de Janeiro Carnival: Hotel occupancy surpasses 95%
HotéisRIO, the Cidade Maravilhosa's hotel owners' association, forecast that hotel occupancy during this year's Carnival ...
BBC12d
A samba queen's guide to Rio de Janeiro
Brazilians often say that "everything ends in samba", but perhaps it would be more accurate to say that samba never ends – at least not in Rio de Janeiro ... role in its Carnival ...
WFAE 90.73d
A samba at Rio's Carnival will explore the city's African past and its Bantu people
One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio.
The Associated Press6h
Street vendors dispense the party fuel for Rio’s Carnival, but face pushback as their numbers grow
Sweat streamed down Talita Ferreira Sanches’ face as she pushed a cart loaded with beer and water up the winding, cobblestone ...
Hosted on MSN5h
Rio crowns samba school Beija-Flor champion as Carnival ends
The Beija-Flor samba school on Wednesday (March 5) was crowned champion of the iconic Rio de Janeiro Carnival, marking their ...
AllAfrica on MSN10h
Rio's Carnival - Songs About Afro-Brazilian Religions 'Aren't a Coincidence but a Movement'
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access information on a device and to provide personalised ads and content, ad and ...