These were a strong influence on the development of the other samba schools.

Today it is one of the most celebrated roles in samba schools.

Some consider this as the starting point leading to the development of present-day samba schools.

His body was laid out in the samba school of Mocidade.

With no time to change costumes, they agreed to parade without changing clothes, together, in the samba schools of each one.

"And we show that a population without education or technology is capable of producing a work of art like a samba school."

His participation in the Carnival was not limited to his samba school.

The Carnival is also a very traditional activity in the city, where there are parades of samba schools for over thirty years.

For 2013 the parade of the special group will be composed by 12 samba schools:

Before this, there was only one association of samba schools and all the schools participated in the same division.