Celebrating the Art of Carnival

 

Photo: Maracatu do Centro, originally uploaded by maxlevay.

Recife Guide (A Pearl Travel Guides site), just launched the first in a series of photographic galleries to celebrate "The Art of Carnival". The first gallery focuses on Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian tradition that started life amongst the slaves from the sugar plantations of the northeast.

Maracatu is visually and musically spectacular, famous for its costumes, music and dance. It is also full of symbolic representations and emotion; a very authentic expression of carnival that is centuries old. Follow the link to "The Art of Carnival: Maracatu"