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February 8, 2029

Ensaio de Escola de Samba leads today's complete edition for Brazil.

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Ensaio de Escola de Samba

The real carnival starts months before February, in a concrete quadra where three thousand people sweat through samba until five in the morning. If you have not been to an ensaio, you have not been to carnival. You have been to a tourist attraction.