(21 Feb 2020) Thousands of revellers attended the Carmelitas street party during the first day of the Rio Carnival on Friday. The traditional "bloco", as the carnival parties are called in Brazil, took the streets of Santa Teresa neighbourhood where foreigners and Brazilians wearing costumes danced, played music and enjoy one of the country's most important parties.
"I think carnival makes everybody happy, it's a time when people gather just to be happy, it's something very simple" said Ana McKleen, a 20 years old reveller who attended the party.
For 30 years the Carmelitas bloco has paraded through the streets of Santa Teresa neighbourhood with revellers and musicians dressed as nuns and priests.
"It brings happiness, even with all the situation we are going through in Brazil and in Rio de Janeiro, said Clayton Belevenutto, 42, one of the participants. "This is a moment when we stop to relax a little bit after all the work and the stress (during the year)."
The Carmelitas bloco is one of the most traditional carnival street parties in Rio de Janeiro, taking its name from the legend of a cloistered catholic nun who escaped the convent to join a carnival street party.
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