Brazil, carnival 2025 ends at midnight on Wednesday

*The country is famously known for its vibrant carnival celebrations *This is the final day of parades for local carnival groups

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00:00Meanwhile, it's the final day of Carnival in Brazil, and here's our correspondent

00:04by Amir with more.

00:08It's Fat Tuesday in Brazil, and this only means one thing.

00:11Carnival ends at midnight.

00:13To all of the Catholics in Brazil, the majority of the population, although it's a shrinking

00:18majority, this means that tomorrow Lent starts, a period of 40 days in which good Catholics

00:24are supposed to sacrifice something they love.

00:27Even this sacrifice involves things like giving up drinking, giving up dancing, all

00:31of the things that are popular in Carnival, which has been going on for the past few days,

00:36a period when historically, in the Catholic Carnival tradition, people have enacted all

00:43of their vices for the final stretch before Lent.

00:46But we know that there's many other traditions that have fused with Carnival here in Brazil,

00:52the Afro-Brazilian religions and other folk culture from the indigenous people and the

00:58Roma people, but even so, it means that traditionally, at midnight, it's all over.

01:04So for the local neighborhood Carnival groups, like Estrela, a fragile organization founded

01:12in 1915, one of the oldest in Brazil, which is about to take the streets here in the city

01:18of Pau D'Alho, about 60 kilometers outside of Recife, this is their last performance.

01:25It's the end of Carnival for them, and they're planning on going out with a bang, like all

01:29of the other neighborhood groups that are taking to the streets in small towns and cities

01:34across Brazil right now.