Respuestas
anuary 15:
Fiesta de Santo Amaro in Campos de los Goytacazes (Rio de Janeiro); religious festival of the saint of the baixada camper, in which a mass is celebrated, with payments of promises and baptisms. The representation of the fight between Moors and Christians, also known as Caballada, is also performed.
From January 24 to February 2:
Celebrations of the religious festival of Our Lord of Nazaré, in Nazaré (Bahia)
February 2
Our Lady of the Navigators: is the most traditional religious festival of Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul), is celebrated when the saint became patron of the city.
4 days before Ash Wednesday
Considered as the biggest party in the world, the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro, it is enjoyed during five days of hullabaloo. It starts at midnight on the Friday before Ash Wednesday, at the end of February and the beginning of March. It is celebrated in almost every city in Brazil, the most famous being the one that takes place in Rio.
April 15
Celebrations of the Cavalhadas in Pirenópolis (Goías), Celebration held 45 days after Holy Week, are known internationally, for being homonymous of those made in Spain and which allude to the battles in which the Christians expelled the Moors.
April, the 21st
Tiradentes Day National holiday in which the death of Joaquín José da Silva Xavier (Tiradentes) is remembered, who represented the greatest exponent in the fight for the independence of Brazil through the Mining Inconfidence.
June, 15
Corpus Cristi, National holiday in which the streets are adorned with figures of the Catholic liturgy. The cities of Florianópolis (Santa Catarina), Cabo Frio and Petrópolis (Rio de Janeiro), Matão, Ipitinga and São Manoel (Sao Paulo) stand out as the best ornamented.
June 22 and 24
Folkloric Festival of the Amazon in Manaus.
June 22 to 24
Feast of San Juan in Cachoeira (Bahia).
September 7th
Independence Day, national holiday. It commemorates the declaration, by Don Pedro I, of the separation of the country from Portugal.
From October 5 to 22
Oktoberfest in Blumenau (Santa Catarina). German festival with music, dances and gastronomy, is considered the biggest after the Munich Oktoberfest in Germany, there is also a rock festival called Sol rock. The festival gathers around 2 million tourists annually.
December 26
The festival of Las Congadas consists of parades of blacks on the day of St. Benedict, commemorating the coronation of a king of the Congo. They include dances and songs from Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. The best-known Conga are Lapa, those of some municipalities of Santa Catarina and those of some gold regions in Minas Gerais