28th April 2007

Carnival in Brazil - Porto Alegre

posted in Carnival, Photography, Society by Rico Ferrari |

Somedays ago I wrote a small rant about Porto Alegre, my southern hometown, and about Olinda’s Carnival in comparison with that from Rio de Janeiro. So now it’s time to show some pics from Porto Alegre’s brancaleone Carnival.

Just to contextualize: Porto Alegre (map) is the southern state capital town where the commie World Social Forum - an anti-globalization, anti-Davos Forum, semi-Luddite congregation of all kind of leftists (and the Brazilian LefThieves) - was held from 2001 to 2005. Porto Alegre is also famous for… Well… actually nothing, but don’t tell them or they’ll be very angry at you (sorry, Solon, I can’t resist).

Porto Alegre is not particularly famous by its Carnival, but it’s pretty decent in terms of getting the cheap kind of fun you get in Samba Carnivals, comparing to other places in Brazil. It’s also far more secure then a Samba Carnival in Rio or Sao Paulo, although way small. Bellow you can see some very cool pics of this year’s party.

Momo, despot Monarch for four days.
This is KING MOMO, Carnival’s 4 days despotic monarch.


As a commie village, Porto Alegre worships Che Guevara.

Pretty black girl dancing samba.
She knows how to dance the Samba.

A homage to German colonists in Porto Alegre's carnival.
The German flag in a homage to the German colonists of Rio Grande do Sul.

People wearing the Brazilian flag in Porto Alegre's Carnival
The dancing patriots.

Homage to the Brazilian flag in Porto Alegre's carnival
More patriots.

All pics by Marcos Nagelstein

Via Mirella

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