In Rio de Janeiro, New Year’s Eve celebration involves the whole city population. Local inhabitants and visitors join to celebrate taken by the same euphoria: to be in Rio. The advent of the new year, it's time to update and to ask for blessings. Believers of all ages, colors and classes, are gradually coming to the shore, especially in Copacabana. Some are singing, others are dancing, but all participating in the musical show. The most mystical throw flowers into the sea, asking for luck. The New Year's celebrations witness 2 million revelers who gather on Copacabana beach all dressed in white for an unforgettable night of musical shows, dancing, fireworks and merrymaking – increasingly exuberant year after year. |