Réveillon - Silvester

Imagine a stage production of gigantic extent, where the theatre over two million people takes and the stage, 4 km long, the lovely beach of the Copacabana, as a scenery have. And at this performance, a sacred celebration unparalleled, the people of Rio is one of the principal actors.

People dressed white from all corners and ends of the world, almost everyone, say goodbye to the year coming to an end and welcome the arrival of a new year. People of all social classes and strata, side to side, together, into peace. In traditional actions which mix magic and devotedness with each other believers Iemanja, the queen of the water, bring sacrificial offerings. And, if the celebration has so already got unforgettable, incomparable a little really only then starts: The greatest firework of the world inspires the beauty of the beach of Copacabana in a lot of colours.

Two million people unite by the incomparable spirit of Rio, welcome each other, to know oneself also without himself, and go in the direction of the beach to offer their sacrificial offerings. Everybody follows his personal ritual. The new year has come.