HotéisRIO, the Cidade Maravilhosa's hotel owners' association, forecast that hotel occupancy during this year's Carnival festivities reached 95.51%, a substantial increase from last year's 80.18%, ...

Rio's government made its most significant investment yet in 2024's Carnival. If it pays off, everyone wins. Rita de Cassia Oliveira takes a brief pause to reorganise a display of colourful earrings, ...

Brazil has gone a little less wild for this year's Carnival celebrations, with more demure costumes that represent the country’s numerous local celebrations. This shift in Carnival culture came as a ...

A reveller of the Beija Flor de Nilópolis samba school performs during the first night of Rio’s Carnival at the Sambadrome in Rio, Brazil, on February 12, 2018. (Photo by… NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Extraterrestrial toucan birds, neon green spacemen waving Brazilian flags and legions of scantily clad women and men dancing a furious samba opened the final round of Rio de Janeiro's extravagant ...

Before the prayer and sacrifice of Christianity’s Lenten season, there’s a time to celebrate. And nobody celebrates like Rio de Janeiro, where people come together to party in the streets, bars and ...

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