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The Carnival in Rio de

Janeiro is a festival held every year before Lent and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets . The Rio Carnival celebration dates back to 1640s . During that time , elaborate feasts were organized to give honor to the Greek wine gods .
The Romans used to worship Dionysus or Bacchus , the god of the grape-harvest . The festival ‘ Entrudo ’ was introduced by the Portuguese and this inspired the birth of the Carnival in Brazil . In 1840 , the very first Rio masquerade took place , and polka and waltz took center stage . Africans subsequently influenced the Carnival with the introduction of samba music in 1917 , which is now considered a traditional Brazilian form .

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