Cidade do Samba ( Portuguese, ''Samba City''), formally known as Cidade do Samba Joãozinho Trinta, is a complex of buildings in the neighborhood of Gamboa,

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. It is used for

Samba schools A samba school ( pt, Escola de samba) is a dancing, marching, and drumming (Samba Enredo) club. They practice and often perform in a huge square-compounds ("quadras de samba") and are devoted to practicing and exhibiting samba, an Afro-Brazilian ...

to prepare for carnival. About fourteen of the major samba schools have a warehouse in the complex.

February 2011 fire

On the early morning of Monday February 7, 2011, four weeks before carnival, a fire broke out in the buildings. The warehouses contain many costumes and floats, often composed with inflammable materials. Some 8400 costumes and twenty floats, belonging to three samba schools, might be lost

Cidade do Samba Joãozinho Trinta 2019

February 2011 fire

Cidade do Samba Joãozinho Trinta 2019

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