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The spectacular Iemanjá New Year's Eve festival on Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Jacques Limborg, courtesy of the Rio Convention & Visitors Bureau

Iemanjá Festival

31 Dec 2009 (annual)

Every year, people congregate on the golden beaches of Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon to worship the Goddess of the Sea, Iemanjá. Throngs of Umbanda followers enact their rites of worship…

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Fireworks. Photo by Claudia Fogg, © Whatsonwhen

June Festival

24 Jun 2010 (annual)

An integral part of Brazilian culture, the June Festival (Festa Juninia) sees children (and numerous adults) in country-style lumberjack shirts, straw hats, pigtails and painted freckles.…


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Iemanjá Festival

Copacabana Beach

31 Dec 2009 (annual)

June Festival

Rio de Janeiro

24 Jun 2010 (annual)