As mentioned before, places like São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Bahia are very famous for having both, the “classic” carnival with the parades, and the “street” carnivals.

Heavy rain triggered floods and landslides in Brazil, killing at least 36 people and casting a pall over the country’s annual carnival festivities. The hardest-hit regions – Sao Sebastiao ...

Bahia tourism officials have taken pains to stress that Carnival will start as scheduled Feb. 17, even if the strike goes on.

When they parade in the streets of Salvador during carnival, it’s proof that the spirit of the Malês are alive and in the cultural memory of Bahia. Malê Debalê’s message—voiced primarily through their ...

Following a high-profile police strike in Bahia state, Brazil, Rio De Janeiro police are taking industrial action in pursuit of higher salaries, two weeks before the famed Carnival celebrations begin.

In Southern Brazil, the all women’s carnival block Cores de Aide is marching for political resistance and in defense of women, who have been particularly under attack during the far-right ...

More than two dozen people have died in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, including a 7-year-old girl, in rains so severe that six cities had to cancel Carnival. The dead numbered at least 26 in two … ...

Brazilians know how to party. Nowhere is that more obvious than at Carnival, Brazil’s most popular celebration festively combining its rich and multi-ethnic melting pot.

African-Brazilians provided Brazil with internationally renowned cultural symbols: samba and carnival. The center of African-Brazilian culture is the city of Salvador in the state of Bahia.

SALVADOR, Brazil — Rhythm is king in this seaside city long known as the capital of Afro-Brazilian culture, or more simply as the Black Rome — and not only at Carnival. Drums thunder from ...

Top alternative Brazilian carnivals . The Rio de Janeiro carnival starts on the Friday, 20th February 2009 and finishes on Mardi Gras or “Fat Tuesday”, on 24th February – it promises, as ever, to be a ...

Netflix has debuted an official trailer for a very cheesy Brazilian friendship comedy called Carnaval, an obvious "carnal" play on the festive "Carnival" mega party down in Brazil.