Let the best one win!

If you've ever heard about our Carnaval then you have definitely seen at least one image of our parades.

Although I have never had the chance to go and see carnaval in Salvador that is still on my bucket list I can say I've been in Rio during Carnaval. My first time was in 2013. My mom's dream was to actually be in the parede and dance the runway of Sapucai, although we didn't really plan that far ahead for her to do so, so we sedulted just to watch the parade in the bunks. That bye the way was just as much fun if we were in the parede. I even had the chance to go last year!

For those who see the beautiful art work, the outstanding rhythm the musctions have, the outstanding carnaval spirit from the baianas that dance with passion and the love for samba coming from the singers that sing with proud the story of their theme in the samba, you have no idea how hard it was to arrive to where we are now. It took a long time to achieve all there is now and two very passionate city's with carnaval.

Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo share the same big festive origin but are very different. Bruno Baronetti has dedicated his career towards carnavals history in an interview he says "the Cariocas (people from Rio) style of samba schools, was the first model of a competition and became popular."

In Sao Paulo only in 1968 was officialized Carnaval, when the state government began to invest in samba schools. One of the biggest schools in Sao Paulo is "Vai-Vai", that was also one of the biggest blocos in the city before becoming a school it was just a smaller organization to just parede around the street. The type of public to attend such blocos were the dominant part of the population, the poor, the black. Part of the city would have fun during Carnaval up until the 60's, says Bruno.

In the 1960's they lose forces and soon gave origin to samba schools in the capital, and soon lost the title for just the poor and came to the more wealthy. In Rio, the classic samba schools began from what are called "rancho carnavalesco" that was popular from 1920 until the 20th century dividing the space with what it is now.

As I mentioned earlier in Rio there is the famous "runway" where the schools parede, that receives the name Sapucai. In Sao paulo they have Anhembi. I'm not sure about sao paulo, but I know that in Rio the private cabins and some of the space there is, that is left during the time out of Carnaval that kids that live in the slums around Sapucai have classe, out of school classes. I had this information about four years ago, with the current situation of Rio I'm not that sure these classes still go on.