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samba school Empress of Leopoldinawith a parade dedicated to the regional culture of the northeast of Brazil, won this Wednesday the title of the best this year of

samba school Empress of Leopoldinawith a parade dedicated to the regional culture of the northeast of Brazil, won this Wednesday the title of the best this year of the Special Group Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

The artistic formation won back the title after 22when he won the triple championship in 1999, 2000 and 2001 and, according to critics, he presented one of the most colorful parades of this century on Tuesday mornings at the Marqués de Sapucaí sambadrome.

WITH 3000 membersdistributed over 24 groups and five gigantic platforms, the Imperatriz Leopoldinense marched with the figures and cultural elements of the nine states of the northeast as a thematic axis in their costumes, songs and performances.

Giant and colorful figure of the legendary bandit lampiaoa rural thief from the thirties, whom the authorities considered a villain but a hero for the city, led the parade on the second night Rio Special Force.

Oxen, cacti, bull skulls, which are very common in the countryside, and other elements of the folk culture of the northeast, were placed on the podium of the sambadrome by the Rio school.

Ten-year-old Expédita Ferreira, the only daughter of Lampião and Maria Bonita, paraded in one of the carts of the school, which now has nine titles at the Rio Carnival.

Second place went to United Viradurowho dedicated his parade to the writer Rosa Egypsiaca (1719-1771), a slave from Benin and the first black woman to write a book in Brazil.

The top six schools will again parade on Saturday at Rio de Janeiro’s traditional night of champions sambadrome.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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