Brazil is getting ready to celebrate its most popular and lively festival, Carnival, which will begin four days before Lent, the forty-day period leading up to Easter. Each city has its own style and tradition to live the carnival, from the glamorous parades of the samba schools in Rio de Janeiro, to the multitudinous street parties in Salvador de Bahia and Recife. teleSUR
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00:00 In Brazil hundreds of thousands of people are out on the streets warming up for carnivals
00:04 Which officially begins one week from today. You will see fair correspondent Ramir has more
00:09 Officially carnival will start next Saturday
00:13 Four days before the beginning of Lent in the Catholic tradition
00:18 However across Brazil hundreds of thousands of people are already out on the streets
00:24 Celebrating what's called the pre carnival parties. I'm here in the Joaquim Nabucco foundation in Recife
00:32 named after a famous
00:34 19th century abolitionist Joaquim Nabucco
00:36 Where an expected a hundred thousand people are showing up to parade down August 17th Avenue
00:42 Behind a dozen different bands playing on top of sound trucks. This is an annual tradition that's been going on since
00:51 1984 and it's just one of hundreds of similar parties that are taking place across the country today in cities like Olinda
00:58 Recife Salvador Bahia Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo as
01:03 tourists pouring from around the world
01:06 Even though carnivals only starting in another week the feeling on the streets is that
01:11 Carnival has already begun in Brazil and that this is going to be one of the greatest carnivals of all times
01:17 Let's take a short break. But remember you can join us