It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival.

Ironically, although Portugal introduced Christianity and the customs related to Catholic practice to Brazil, the country has begun to adopt some aspects of Brazilian-style Carnival celebrations, in particular those of Rio de Janeiro with sumptuous parades, samba and other Brazilian musical elements.

Carnival in Haiti is just as popular as the carnivals in Brazil in the Central America and the Caribbean islands.

The Carnival in Brazil is a big part of the Brazilian Culture, and it is sometimes referred to by the Brazilians as the " Greatest Show on Earth ".

* February 2009: for the Year of France in Brazil, and as part of the Rio Carnival, the Moulin Rouge is produced on the mythical Copacabana beach.

Chiquinha is most known for her works for the Carnival in Brazil, such as Ó Abre Alas, and theatrical works, as for example, the operettas Forrobodó and " Jurití ".

Carnival is the most famous holiday in Brazil and has become an event of huge proportions.

There are several major differences between Carnival in the state of Bahia in Northeastern Brazil and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

Tested within the height of Carnival heat, Axé songs have been commercially successful in Brazil throughout the past decade.

* Carnival Guide for Brazil and the Rest of South America

It is the second-largest annual festival in Brazil ; only the Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro draw more participants.

This setup is used in Brazilian Carnival inside the blocos carnavalescos and other festivals in Brazil, specially in micaretas.

The city of Memphis celebrated Mardi Gras, and a Carnival season based on the traditional Christian liturgical calendar just before the season of Lent, similar to what is still practiced in cities such as New Orleans, Louisiana, Mobile, Alabama, Galveston, Texas, Venice, Italy and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

* In Brazil, summer break starts in early December and ends in early February, sometimes being delayed until the week after Brazilian Carnival.

" The Greatest Free Show on Earth: Carnival from Trinidad to Brazil, Cape Town to New Orleans.

* Brazilian Carnival (" Carnaval " in Portuguese ), an annual festival in Brazil held forty days before Easter

Sitges (, Catalan for silos ) is a town about 35 kilometres southwest of Barcelona, renowned worldwide for its Film Festival and Carnival.

In the forthcoming The Conquering Hero and Carnival, Broadway is not even adapting books, but reconverting old movies ( Hail The Conquering Hero and Lili ).

the multifigure `` Traveling Carnival '', in which action is vivified by lighting ; ;

Alpine festivals vary from country to country and often include the display of local costumes such as dirndl and trachten, the playing of Alpenhorns, wrestling matches, some pagan traditions such as Walpurgis Night, and in many areas Carnival is celebrated before Lent.

* Earliest date on which Notting Hill Carnival can fall, while August 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Monday in August and the day before.

The name " domino " is from the pieces ' resemblance to Venetian Carnival masks known as domini, which were white with black spots.

Winter term is celebrated by Winter Carnival, a tradition started in 1911 by the Dartmouth Outing Club to promote winter sports.

" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Like the rest of the Canaries, Carnival is traditionally one of the biggest festivals celebrated on the island.

The Crowd Roars is loosely based on the play The Barker: A Play of Carnival Life by Kenyon Nicholson.

The Carnival Procession is around long and consists of 3. 000 participants, around 30 festival vehicles and around 20 bands and takes place every year.

* Earliest day on which St Pauls Carnival can fall, while July 7 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Saturday in July.

To this day, AF is the center of student life in Lund, featuring many theater companies, a prize-winning student radio ( Radio AF ), and organizing the enormous Lundakarnevalen ( the Lund Carnival ) every four years.

A group of eleven musicians, such as found in The Carnival of the Animals, is called either a " hendectet " or an " undectet " ( see Latin numerical prefixes ).

The Werribee International Horse Centre at Werribee racecourse is the Victorian quarantine station for international horses competing in the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.

Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals, which are sometimes recited when the work is performed.

In Europe, this is particularly the case with the various customs of Carnival or Fasnacht and the Yule traditions surrounding Santa Claus / Sinterklaas.

Road travel is more dangerous during the rainy season and in the interior from Carnival through Good Friday.

The samba is frequently associated abroad with football and Carnival.

The following recordings by the Seekers were each certified as having sold over one million copies: " I'll Never Find Another You ", " A World of Our Own ", " The Carnival is Over " and " Georgy Girl ".

Carnival is an important celebration in Anglican and Catholic European nations.

In the Belgian city of Binche the Mardi Gras festival is the most important day of the year and the summit of the Carnival of Binche.

In Milan Mardi Gras is not the climax of Carnival, since the Carnival lasts four more days, ending on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, because of the Ambrosian rite.

The last day of Carnival, therefore, is the " Sabato grasso " ( Shrove or Fat Saturday ).

The Panamanian Carnival is also popular because of the great number of concerts by national and international artists held on different stages in the most visited areas of the country.

The Stanborough Park and lakes was the venue for a free annual Water Carnival and firework display and a November 5 fireworks display, both of which attracted large crowds from great distances.

* Lambourn Carnival with lots of events and a great procession of floats through the village and Horse Show

His great historical play Mot Karneval ( Towards Carnival ), based on the life of Niccolò Machiavelli is a prime example ; also, a play based on the life of Pietro Aretino called Den Sidste Gjæst / The Last Guest ).

Strauss ' near impossible task of inspiring the same joie de vivre into the Vienna Carnival Fasching of 1867 was met with great aplomb by all three Strauss brothers as their works displayed no signs of dying inspiration, and in turn introducing to the Viennese how their creative spirit defied the troubled spirit of the times.

During the early twentieth century, great interest developed in creating a city-wide event like Carnival, and re-establishing the Mystic Memphi.

Seventy-four years later, the mission of Carnival remains much the same as it was in 1931-to recognize and promote an industry that has a major economic impact on the Mid-South community, and to promote the City of Memphis as a great place to live and work, and to cause an annual celebration in honor of that industry and the people of the Mid-South.

Unicornis, Titkos Jegyzőkönyv, Silentium ( 1948 – 51, Unicorn, Secret Protocol, Silence ) were published as late as 1987, but were written alongside Hamvas ’ s great novel, Karnevál ( 1948 – 51, Carnival, published in 1985 ).

“ I was not going to feature the great Igor Ilyinsky in The Carnival Night-I felt timid, and understood that being a coryphaeus he would suppress me.