When is the rio de janerio carnival?

Answer 1

40 days before Easter.

Answer 2

Rio carnival 2010 officially starts at midnight on Friday 13th February and finishes at midnight on Tuesday 17th Feb. The parades of the biggest samba schools are on the Sunday and Monday nights. There is also a huge street carnival going on all over Rio at the same time.

You can find out more about the schedules of the samba school parades and the street carnival if you follow the related links below.

Answer 3

Carnival - the name means, "farewell to flesh" that is, to eating meat - is the period before Lent, when people formerly took vows of abstinence. The last day of carnival is Fat Tuesday, or in French, Mardi Gras.

Answer 4

The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro always begins on a Saturday and lasts for three days up until Monday. This year it started on the ninth of February, whereas next year it will start on the first of March.

Answer 5

The carnival of Brazil is held four days before Ash Wednesday, the day of fasting and repentance that marks the beginning of Lent. The word carnival comes from the term carnelevare which means, to remove meat.

Answer 6

The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is in February.