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The Period of Precarnival
offers many parties and funny events
in Recife and Olinda.
Pernambuco's
carnival attracts thousands of tourists every year, specially to
the cities of Recife and Olinda. The
Carnival
in Recife and Olinda, Pernambuco is a Streetcarnival.The Masquerade Club "Galo da
Madrugada" (Cock of the Dawn) opens brazilian carnival officially
in Recife.
Recife,
the capital of Pernambuco, in the northeast 
of Brazil, is a
traditional Carnival destination for
Brazilians. For example,
there are people who live in Rio who like to escape the waves of
tourists arriving from around the world and party elsewhere.
Recife and Olinda, its neighbor, have long been Carnival hot
spots for Brazilians from all over the country to let loose and
really party. In Recife, there are music stages downtown and
spread out through the city. In Olinda, the partying takes place
in the colorful, house-lined, sloping streets of the city.
The
Carnival festivities begin in December, as locals begin
preparing for the official Carnival in Recife and Olinda, which starts the week
before Ash Wednesday. The pre-Carnival parties usually consist
of percussion groups practicing in local
clubs, city streets and
squares, and even Carnival balls. There are a variety of rhythms
from native Indian and African Maracatu beats to Frevo and
samba. Carnival officially starts with the Galo da Madrugada, a
party in downtown Recife attracting as many as 20,000 costumed
partiers!
The ball Baile
dos Artistas:
One of the
most famous Gay Carnival Balls of Brazil is the Baile dos Artistas,
(The
Ball of the Artists), in Recife in the Club "Club
Portuguêse", (8
kilometers far from Hotel Pousada Peter, Olinda,
Pernambuco), which
always takes place on friday, two weeks before the last weekend of the
real Carnival of Recife and Olinda. This Baile
dos Artistas is one of the most creative and funniest carnival
balls of Brazil. Meanwhile it is so trendy, that all of the straight
society of Recife and Pernambuco is participating, too. Every year some tv companies
are showing this
Baile dos Artistas life
on tv. This ball Baile dos Artistas is
the begin of the last big carnival ball events of Recife. In addition,
there are a lot
of other carnival ball events in Recife, too.
The ball Baile Masque
(Ball of the
Masks):
The next big carnival ball after the Baile dos Artistas
is the ball Baile Masque, (Ball of the Masks
-
8 kilometers far from Hotel Pousada Peter,
Olinda, Pernambuco),
taking place one day after the Baile dos
Artistas always on saturday, two weeks before the last weekend of the
real carnival of Recife and Olinda. Every year some tv companies
are showing this Baile Masque
life
on tv.
The ball Baile Municipal:
The Baile Municipal, (Ball of the City Recife -
(4 kilometers far from Hotel Pousada Peter,
Olinda, Pernambuco), is
taking
place on the next saturday, which is the last weekend before of "Carnival".
The Baile Municipal is the biggest carnival ball of Recife.
Every year some tv companies
are showing this Baile Municipal life
on tv. In
addition many numerous other ballevents and carnival streetparties are taking
place in Recife and Olinda.
By the way, you will meet on all of this three big ballevents a fix
part of the same participants, who are enjoying this wonderfull
popular carnivalballs.
Last not least, this three carnival balls Baile
d
os Artistas, Baile Masque and
the ball Baile Municipal are the
highlights of the Carnival Ball Season of Recife and
Pernambuco. They are popular events. This explains the participation
of the whole population, because the reasonable prices for the entrance makes
it possible.
Do you remember
those big dolls walking through the streets of New Orleans in
the James Bond classic Live and Let Die? Well, that's one of the
main characteristics of Carnival in Olinda. Olinda is characteri
zed by steep rolling hills covered with colorful
houses. Artists spend
the whole year making huge dolls, which will be worn by people
in street parades throughout the somewhat longer 11-day carnival
celebration, which is kicked off by two parades of 'virgins'
consisting of about thousands men in drag.
In Olinda, the people
celebrate Carnival in the streets.
Practically unknown to
foreign Carnival novices, Olinda has a very respected Carnival
tradition within the country of Brazil. So, if you want to
celebrate Carnival with a more native Brazilian feel, without
being totally surrounded by tourists from every other corner of
the world, as you'll find in Rio, Olinda is an excellent choice.
It's one of the longest Carnival celebrations, which lasts until
early March and believe me it is a very happening, big party,
attracting lots of beautiful Brazilians looking for a good time.
Carnaval
in
Olinda, Pernambuco, actually gets going two
Sundays before the official start, when the
" New Virgens do Bairro Novo
de Olinda, a new bloco
several hundred strong, parades down the seafront road followed
by crowds that regularly top 200,000.
One Sunday before the official start, when the "Virgens
do Bairro Novo", the traditional bloco
also several hundred strong, parades down the seafront road
followed by crowds that regularly top 200,000.
By now the old city is covered with decoration
s:
ribbons, streamers and coloured lanterns are hung from every
nook and cranny, banners are strung across streets and coloured
lighting set up in all the squares. Olinda's
Carnaval is not only famous for
its
bonecos, which are first paraded
around on Friday night and then at intervals during the days,
but also for the decorated umbrellas that aficionados use to
dance the frevo.
The tourist office has lists of the hundreds of groups, together
with routes and approximate times, but there is something going
on all the time in most places in the old city. The most
famous blocos, with mass
followings, are Pitombeira and Elefantes; also try catching the
daytime performances of travestis,
transvestite groups, which have the most imaginative costumes
– ask the tourist office to mark them out on the list for you.
Olinda's Carnaval
is generally considered to be one of the three greatest in
Brazil, along with Rio and Salvador. It overshadows the
celebrations in neighbouring Recife, and attracts thousands of
revellers from all over the Northeast. It's easy to see why
Olinda developed into such a major Carnaval: the setting is
matchless, and local traditions of art and music are very strong.
Like the other two great Brazilian carnivals, Olinda has a style
and feel all of its own: not quite as large and potentially
intimidating as in either Rio or Salvador, the
fact that much of
it takes place in the winding streets and small squares of the
old city makes it seem more manageable. The area of the historic
centre "Cidade Alta" of
town is one of the liveliest during Carnaval. The music,
with the local beats of frevo and maracatu
predominating, the costumes and the enormous bonecos,
papier-mâche figures of folk heroes or savage caricatures of
local and national personalities, make this Carnaval
unique. Therefore
the overnight accomodation prices
for carnival are in the historical center of
Olinda, the "Cidade Alta", highly like that as in Rio de
Janeiro and Salvador de Bahia.
Brazilians
are hot, sensual people and since Olinda is packed with
Brazilians coming to meet girls and guys from all over the
country you can bet the streets are sizzling. It's an
interesting mixture of rhythms, in addition to the caboclinhos,
native Indians, and African influenced Maracatu beats, there's
Frevo, a style of music where people dance with umbrellas to a
fast rhythm. People that go to Recife and Olinda know how to
party and they live for this celebration each year!
Olinda
- The Description of the Town
The
Description
of the twenty Churches
of Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil
How
to get by Car
to
the
Historic Center of Olinda,
Pernambuco, Brazil
and to the Hotel Pousada
Peter
- Art Gallery,
please click here !
The Beaches
"Praias" North of Olinda,
Rio Doce, Nossa Senhora do Ó,
Janga, Pau Amarelo, Conceição,
Maria Farinha,
the Cities Igarassu, Itapissuma,
Vila Velha, Itamaracá and Forte Orange,
Pernambuco, Brazil,
are nice Places to make Excursions !
Map of the Beaches "Praias"
North of Olinda,
Pernambuco, Brazil,
click here, please
!
The Beaches
"Praias"
South of Olinda and Recife,
Pernambuco, Brazil,
Boa Viagem, Piedade, Casa Caiada, Cabo,
Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Itapuama, Ipojuca, Enseada dos Corais, Gaibu,
Calhetas, Suape, Porto de Galinhas, Tamandaré, Muro Alto, Paiva,
Carneiros, Maracaipe,
Ponta de Serrambi,
are nice Places to make Excursions !
Map
of the Beaches "Praias"
South of Olinda,
Pernambuco, Brazil,
click here, please
!
The Waterfalls
of Pernambuco, Brazil,
are Jewels of Brazil !
Parque
das Cachoeiras
Park of the Waterfalls of
Bonito,
Pernambuco, Brazil !
The
City
Brejo da Madre de Deus
Pernambuco,
Brazil,
with its prehistoric archeological place
"O Sítio arqueológico
"Furna do Estrago",
is one of the most important
prehistoric places of Brazil !
The
Map,
how to go from Recife and
Olinda
to the City
Brejo da Madre de Deus,
Pernambuco, Brazil !
THE
CARNIVAL
OF OLINDA,
PERNAMBUCO,
BRAZIL
-
CLICK
HERE,
PLEASE
!
Silvio Bothelho, Creative Artist,
of the Giant Puppets
"Bonecos Gigantes" of Olinda,
Pernambuco, Brazil !
PRE-CARNIVAL
AND THE CARNIVAL
OF RECIFE AND OLINDA,
PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL !
To see a Video
about the Carnival of Olinda
and
in Pernambuco, Brazil,
please click here !
To
hear the famous Music of the Frevo
of the Carnival of Olinda,
Pernambuco, Brazil,
please click here !
The
Beaches
of
Pernambuco, Brazil !
There
are many Excursions
from Olinda to the Beaches
of
Pernambuco, Brazil.
To see the Map of the Beaches,
please click here !
The
City Hall of Olinda
- Prefeitura de
Olinda !
Recife
- The Description of the Town
The Map and the Touristic Points
of the City Recife,
Pernambuco, Brazil.
Please click her !
To
know more about the first
Jewish Synagogue of North and
South America,
"Kahal Zur
Israel",
in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Please click here !
The
Hadassah News
about Recife
Pernambuco, Brazil !
THE
HISTORY
AND INFORMATIONS
ABOUT
THE STATE
OF PERNAMBUCO,
BRAZIL !
THE HISTORY
OF BRAZIL !
The "Newspapers"
and other Events
about the Carnival of Olinda,
the City of Olinda and the
Hotel Pousada Peter - Art Gallery
and the Artist Peter M. Bauer,
Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil :
The
Newspaper "O Estado de São Paulo", Brazil,
of 24. 11. 1998, about the
Hotel Pousada Peter - Art Gallery,
Olinda, Pernambuco Brazil
To read, please mouse-click here !
The
Newspaper "Gerlinger Anzeiger"
Germany, of the 23. 11. 2000, about Artists
of Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil.
To read, please mouse-click here !
The
Artist Peter M. Bauer, Olinda, with the
Governor of the State Pernambuco, Brazil,
Jarbas Vasconselos
and the Journalist Valdi Coutinho
on 27. November 2001.
To
read, please mouse-click here !
The
Artist Peter M. Bauer,
Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil, his Manager
Valdi Couthinho, Professor Edson Nery da Fonseca
and the Journalist Alex
of the "Jornal do Commercio",
Recife, Brazil, on
08. 12. 2001,
at the Hotel Pousada Peter - Art Gallery,
Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil.
To
read, please
mouse-click here !
The
Newspaper "Jornal do Commercio",
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, (11. 12. 2001),
about
the Artist
Peter M. Bauer and
Professor Edson Nery da Fonseca at the
Hotel Pousada Peter - Art Gallery,
Olinda, Pernambuco Brazil.
To read, please mouse-click
here !
An
Interview of
the Artist Peter M. Bauer
and the Journalist Francisco José
of the
Television TV Globo, Brazil,
(Rede Globo
Televisão, Brasil), on 31. 12. 2001,
at the Hotel Pousada
Peter - Art Gallery,
Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil.
To read, please mouse-click
here !
The
Newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung",
Germany, of the 23.
02. 2003, about the
Carnival of Olinda, the City of Olinda
and the Hotel Pousada Peter - Art Gallery,
Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil.
To read, please
mouse-click here !
The
"Tuscaloosa News", USA, from 06. 03. 2003
about the Carnival of Olinda, The City of Olinda
and the Hotel Pousada Peter - Art Gallery,
Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil.
To read, please mouse-click here !
An
Interview with the Artist Peter M. Bauer,
Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil,
of the Homepage-News "Olinda Virtual",
from 09. 03. 2003.
To read, please mouse-click here !
Thank you for visiting of our Site.
Hotel Pousada Peter
- Art Gallery
Managing Director
Peter Bauer
Rua do Amparo, 215
Olinda – Pernambuco – Brazil
Citycode: 53020 - 170
Phone/ Fax: 0055 - 81 - 3439.2171
Homepage: www.pousadapeter.com.br
E-mail: pousadapeter@uol.com.br