Samba school parade

SAMBA SCHOOL PARADE

The Samba college parades have been held within the Praça Onze became regarded the birthplace of samba carioca known as Pequena Africa. future GRES Estácio de Sá, collectively with Portela and Estação Primeira de Mangueira paraded for the first time within the town in 1929. In 1930 five faculties have been already parading. With the works of in Avenida Presidente Vargas the parade moved there, from 1942 to 1945 the parade became held in São Januário. From 1952 brief stands for most people to examine the parades were built, and in 1961 paid tickets made their debut to take benefit of the rising international and country wide interest and the growing vacationer arrivals. In 1974, because of the works of the subway, that 365 days's parade turned into held and broadcast on the first time on coloration television from Avenida Presidente Antônio Carlos. In 1978, the parade became transfered to the Marquês de Sapucaí avenue, in which it stays as plenty as these days. In 1983, the then governor Leonel Brizola, commissioned the architect Oscar Niemeyer the project of a eternal nearby stadium for the parades in that region, due to the fact till then the bleachers had been assembled on the time of the carnival after which removed.