Samba Schools Parade

SAMBA SCHOOLS PARADE

Venue
Passarela do Samba Professor Darcy Ribeiro – Sambódromo
Rua Marquês de Sapucaí, s/n – Praça Onze – Cidade Nova

PARTICIPANTS IN THE PARADE

SAMBA SCHOOLS IN THE SPECIAL GROUP
The parade, high point of carnaval, takes place on a Sunday and a Monday, with six schools each time.
The schools belonging to this group, affiliated to the Liga Independente das Escolas de Samaba do Rio de Janeiro, are specially magnificent and sumptuous, each containing approximately five thousand participants plus celebrated Brazilian show-business and jet-set personalities.

*A* GROUP SAMBA SCHOOLS
These schools, affiliated to the Leags of the Group a samba Schools, form the Grupo de Acesso.
They are 10 large and important schools that thrillingly and beautifully parade on the Saturday with their plots narrated through their samba, costumes and allegoric cars. The champion of this parade ascends to the Special Group.

*B* GROUP SAMBA SCHOOLS
They are also called base groups, as they are the popular bases from which the big schools originated. Small, each school having approximately one thousand and five hundred participants, they nevertheless parade with much vigor to defend their carnival.

CHAMPIONS’ SATURDAY
On the Saturday after carnaval, the Samba Schools winners of the Special Group, from Sunday and Monday, parade in all their splendor.

JUNIOR SAMBA SCHOOLS
These are branches of the big schools constituted by children of each community.
Their parade, on the Friday before carnival, follows the procedure of the big schools.

Types and capacity of accommodations available to the public
BOXES

Private spaces rentable for the whole festivities, including the Champions’ Saturday, subdivided in:
Special Boxes – Four buildings between sectors 3, 5, 7 and 9 holding up to 24 spectators in A Boxes and 20 in B Boxes, in a total of 40 boxes holding up to 880 spectators.
Boxes in sectors 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 4 – 24 boxes per sector, in a total of 144 boxes holding up to 1,728 spectators.
Boxes in Sector 2 – There are three storeys divided in 1st floor - A,2nd floor - B and 3rd floor - C, each box holding 12 spectators. The three storeys adding to a total of 306 boxes for 3,672 apectators.
Daily capacity of the boxes - 6,280 people.

DRESS CIRCLE
Uncovered boxes with walls and chairs for six occupants each, in sectors 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 4, in a total of 1,094 holding up to 6,564 spectators. Uncovered boxes with walls for 4 people, in sectors 06 and 13, in a total of 68 boxes, holding up to 272 for each night of the parade.

INDIVIDUAL CHAIRS
3.900 Chairs are placed on steps in sectors 6 and 13.

TIERS OF SEATS
Uncovered spaces up to 15,80 m high, reached by stairs.
Sectors 3,5, 7 and 11, each sitting 2,850 spectators,Sector 4, holding up to 2,750 spectators, Sector 9 - numbered seats hold up to 2,304 spectators, in a total of 16,454 spectators.

Handicaped Places
Sector 4 - 25 places for the physically handicaped with companion.Tickets to be sold.
Sector 13 - for the paraplegic - 100 spaces for wheelchairs; handicaped and companion - 200 chairs; Acess to this sector - CIAT - Integrated Center for Handicaped persons.


POPULAR TIERS OF SEATS
Sector 1 – in the area where the schools organize themselves for the parade; Sectors 6 and 13 – at Praça da Apoteose from where the end of the parade can be seen. Sector 1 holds up to 6,500 spectators and Sectors 6 and 13 up to 9,600 each, in a total of 25,700 spectators.