3. Carnival is a festival that is marked by
"farewell to meat" that it was made from a
long period of abstinence and fasting, as his
own Latin name "carnis levale". For the
preparation had a large concentration of
public entertainment. Each place and region
played in his own way, often in a fancy way
purposely, according to their customs.
Believed to have had its origin in Greece in
the mid 600-520 BC, by which the Greeks
held their worship in thanks to the gods for
soil fertility and production.
4. The Carnival of Venice, idyllic city located
in Italy is characterized by intensive use of
masks and costumes that attempt to
reproduce the style of the nobles who lived in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
and the models presented by Commedia
Dell'Arte characters - theatricals very
common in Italy and throughout Europe of
the sixteenth century to the eighteenth
century, which made famous the characters
as worshiped today, pierrots, harlequins and
columbines.
5. The carnival arrived in Brazil in the
mid-seventeenth century, under the influence of
carnival celebrations that took place in Europe.