Carnival 2011 in Rio

05 - 08 March 2011

If you have been to Rio before, or always had the dream to visit, you might be interested in seeing, or even better participating with your friends or family, in the biggest Carnival on the planet.  It's an unforgettable experience. Please email us for more details.

Everything you need to know about the Rio Carnival.

SAMBA SCHOOL PARADE

Participants in the parade

Samba Schools in the Special Group - The parade, the high point of the carnival, always takes place on Sunday and Monday, with seven schools competing each time.

The schools belonging to this group, affiliated to the Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro, are especially magnificent and sumptuous, each containing approximately five thousand participants plus celebrated Brazilian showbusiness and jet-set personalities.

'A Group' Samba Schools - These schools, affiliated to the Association of the Samba Schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro, form the Group of Acess. They are 10 large and important schools that thrillingly and beautifully parade on the Saturday with their plots narrated through their samba, costumes and allegoric cars. The champion of this parade ascends to the Special Group.

Junior Samba Schools - These are branches of the big schools constituted by children of each community. Their parade, on the Friday before carnival, follows the procedures of the big schools.

B Group Samba Schools - These are also called the base groups, as they are popular bases from which the big schools originated. Small, each school having approximately one thousand five hundred participants, they nevertheless parade with much vigour to defend their carnaval.

Champions' Saturday - On the Saturday after carnaval, the Samba Schools winners of the Special Group, from Saturday and Monday, parade in all their splendor.

Ways to watch the carnival.

BOXES

Private spaces rentable for the whole festivities, including the Champions' Saturday, subdivided in:

Special Boxes - Four buildings between sectors 3, 5, 7 and 9 holding up to 24 spectators in A Boxes and 20 in B Boxes, in a total of 44 boxes holding up to 880 spectators.

Boxes in sectors 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 4 - 24 boxes per sector, in a total of 144 boxes holding up to 1,728 spectators.

Boxes in sector 2 - Three storeys containing boxes first floor A, second floor B and third floor C, each box holding 12 spectators, the three storeys adding up to a total of 306 boxes for 3,672 spetators.

Daily capacity of boxes - 6,280 spectators

DRESS CIRCLE

6 Places - Uncovered boxes with walls and chairs for six occupants each, in sectors 3,5,7,9,11 and 4, in a total of 1,094 boxes holding up to 6,564 spectators.

4 Places - Uncovered boxes with walls and chairs for four occupants each, in

sectors 6 and 13, in a total of 68 boxes, holding up to 272 spectators, for each night.

CHAIRS

3,900 chairs are placed on steps in sectors 6 and 13.

TIERS OF SEATS

Uncovered spaces up to 15,80m high, reached by stairs. Sectors 3, 5,7, and 11, each sitting 2,850 spectators, Sector 4, holding up to, 2,304 spectators, in a total of 16, 454 spectators.

POPULAR TIERS OF SEATS

Sector 1 - in the area where the schools organize themselves for the parade; Sectors 6 and 13 - at Praça da Apoteose from where the end of the parade can be seen. Sector 1 holds up to 6,500 spectators and Sectors 6 and 13 up to 9,600 spectators and Sectors 6 and 13, up to 9,600 each, in a total of 25,700 spectators.

PLACES FOR THE HANDICAPPED

Sector 4 - 25 places for the handicapped and escorts.

Sector 13 - For the paraplegic - 100 places with wheelchairs Handicapped and escorts - 200 chairs.

Map of SAMBADROME, guide to the parade grounds

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