For Easter there were various cultural events around Santa Teresa (my neighbourhood, see pic), including a carnival 'bloco' yesterday afternoon - the Carioca love carnival so much they can't help spreading it across the whole year! The whole thing was a wonderful, and so Brazilian, mixture of sacred and profane, of religious and pagan... The crowd following the musicians, singing salacious carnival tunes, was in gaudy outfits and wearing plastic crowns of thorns on their heads... with, in the background, arty projections of the passion of Christ and famous representations of it... all this washed down with beer and sweat... wonderful!
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