Weihnachten und Silvester in Rio



Kommen Sie zu diesem Fest und lassen Sie sich von der Atmosphäre von Freude und Feierlichkeit mitreissen, die Rio noch schöner wirken lassen mit den beleuchteten Fassaden, den Strassen, durch die sich Menschentrauben ziehen, die alle von der Weihnachtszeit verzaubert sind, auf der Suche nach einem besonderen Geschenk für einen der Lieben…

Alles ist sehr inspirierend und es ist der ideale Moment, um Träume zu entwerfen, die Hoffnung zu stärken, einen Toast aufs neue Jahr auszusprechen und sich in dieser Stadt umzusehen, um zu erkennen, was sie zu bieten hat ausser der schönen Natur. Es gibt viele verschiedenen Shows mit Feuerwerk in einer einmaligen Ausführung, die Ihnen schon aufgrund der ansteckenden Energie, die in der Luft liegt, gefallen werden.

Carnaval

A general explosion of joy
The most important popular festival, it mixes emotions, creativity, plasticity, colors, sounds and many costumes.

Rio hosts a great thematic festival
People dance with joy and freedom as the contagious carioca spirit affects all who come from different places to visit Rio de Janeiro at carnaval time. So, put on a smile, move your feet, loosen up your arms, turn on that twinkle in your eyes and get into it.

The largest popular manifestation in the world
A unique record of mixture that makes up the Brazilian culture. When the time comes for all the merrymakers to be characters in their own play, costume, story, samba. That's carnaval every year.

SUNDAYS OF CARNAVAL
CALENDAR UP TO 2010

2006 – FEBRUARY 26
2007 – FEBRUARY 18
2008 – FEBRUARY 03
2009 – FEBRUARY 22
2010 – FEBRUARY 14

New Year

New Year's in Rio

The New Year’s festivities are all around tne city.

There are shows in different areas of Rio which enliven the turn of the year.

Entrance is free, peace is absolute, and security is guaranteed. To spend New Year’s Eve in Rio is to experience moments of joy in a wonderful scenery with the additional advantage of being surrounded by warm and friendly people.

Copacabana Beach - The greatest show of the year
There are four kilometers of fireworks exploding in the sky or in the luminous reams on hotel façades and from different barges in the sea. The people, mostly dressed in white, coming from the four corners of the world, bid farewell to the year that is ending and toast the arrival of the new year.
People from all social classes, side by side, in peace, in manifestations that mix magic and devotion, devotees make offerings to Iemanjá, the African Goddess of the Waters.
One of the largest fireworks in the world with about 15-minute duration, illuminates the beauty of Copacabana Beach in various colors. Two million people united by the incomparable spirit of Rio greet each other, even if they are strangers, and walk in the direction of the shore to make their offerings. Each one in their own private ritual.
The New Year has arrived!

From Leme to Copacabana Fort
Hotels and restaurants present the most varied party options, with menus prepared by great chefs or tropical buffets. Always entitled to the greatest attraction: the magnificent fireworks display at midnight, which illuminates the sky in different forms and colors.
Stages are erected the length of the beach at which live shows take place.
It is undoubtedly the greatest open-air party in the world.

Titles Obtained by Rio de Janeiro

1 - Definitive headquarters of the ABAV Congress and Exhibition, in Riocentro which was established as the biggest and best Conventions Center in South America.

2 - In a research among readers of “Viagem” magazine of Abril Publishers, Rio was chosen as the best Destination in Brazil.

3 - The city of Rio was chosen, in a research carried out in two American universities – the University of Michigan and the University of California – as World Capital of Friendliness.

4 - A research among the readers of Recommend magazine had Rio chosen as best Honeymoon destination in South America.

5 - Condé Nast’s Traveller magazine included Copacabana Palace Hotel and Caesar Park Hotel in Ipanema, both in Rio, among the best hotels in the world. They were the only Brazilian hotels on the list.

6 - Rio Carnival was elected by visitors of the Site Fun Party as the Best Party in the World.

7 – American QG magazine includes Rio as one of the ten best places in the world to work according to foreign executives interviewed.

8 – The World Travel Awards gave Rio de Janeiro and RIOCENTRO respectively the prizes for best tourist destination in South America and best Conventions Center in South America.

9 – Travel Channel included Ipanema Beach in its famous list of ten best beaches in the world, “The World’s Best Beaches 2002.”

10 – Rio and Vuitton – Rio de Janeiro is the sixth city chosen by the French enterprise Louis Vuitton for its series “carnets de voyage”.

11 – Rio was placed among the best tourist cities in the world, according to the readers of Condé Nast’s Traveller magazine, Italian edition. It is the only Latin American city mentioned.

12 – Twenty four thousand readers of the English newspapers The Guardian and The Observer chose, for their annual travel edition in July 2003, Rio de Janeiro as their sixth favorite tourist destination.

13 – The August edition of the American magazine “Travel & Leisure” shows the results of its 8th award “The world best awards 2003”, a research made with 200.000 readers. Rio, is on the top of the list in the category “Best Destination of Central, South America and Mexico”. It is also the only in Brazil among the five best ones.

14 - Sugar Loaf in Mars. Rio has received a tribute 200 million kilometers away, in Mars! The Nasa Brazilian scientist Paulo Souza, named a Martian rock, in the Guzev Crater, Sugar Loaf, after the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. August, 2004.

15 - Rio de Janeiro was elected The very best of South America Destination by thousands of tourism professionals of 200 countries in December 2004. The prize was the World Tracel Awards.

16 - The very best of South America Destination. In the American edition of the Travel Weekly magazine. Rio de Janeiro was elected by thousands of tourism professionals in the USA. Published in the December 2004 edition.

17 - The Canadian magazine En route, published by Air Canada divulged in November 2003, a curious research where Rio de Janeiro is rated the Most civilized city in the world. The research index are the facility of finding beer/soft drinks around, the quality of appetizers, the look fashion of the natives, easiness to travel around and interesting street life.

Crédito: Riotur