📷 A City that Prepares for the Carnival 🎷

jsantana (70)in #photography • 7 years ago

Frevo's nieces who adorn the Public Market in downtown Recife

The carnival mood is already being felt here in Recife. The downtown shops are already full of costumes, masks, frevo umbrellas and props for people to buy and enjoy this one that is the biggest popular party in Brazil. You can already hear frevo orchestras playing around the city and on the hills of the neighboring city (Olinda). Many carnival blocks are already doing their rehearsals over the weekend, attracting many people who follow the orchestra playing through the streets of the city.

Wigs and other adornments, carnival costumes adorn the shops in the center of the city.

Even though Brazil is experiencing a severe economic crisis, Recife's carnival attracts many people to its festivals, not only people here from Brazil, but from abroad. It is very easy in the blocks of carnival to meet people from the U.S.A, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Holland and even from more distant countries like Russia and even Japan that come here to the city to enjoy the carnival.

Carnival masks you can also buy to enjoy the party.

After Christmas, Carnival is my favorite party. I like to listen and see the orchestras playing around the city, the animation of people dancing frevo, I believe that this is a very original and spontaneous way that the Brazilian has to forget and hide his problems and his daily struggle, with joy.

Guararapes Avenue. Here it parades the "Biggest Carnival Block of the World" according to the Guinness Book that is called : "Galo da Madrugada". A crowd of 2 million people fill this avenue. It's crazy.

Stay tuned to my next posts, because I will certainly have several other posts about the carnival. I will go to the street to follow all the blocks of carnival during that time and I will post here all the photos, curiosities and the grandeur of this party for you.

All photos are my own, signed in © and taken with my Sony Alpha ILCE 3500.