Attend the Rio Carnival

A hilltop colonial town of churches and artists, with the giant puppets of its Carnival.

Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.

Masked balls and Carnevale in the floating city — 18th-century costumes drifting through misty winter squares

The Caribbean's biggest carnival.

Second only to Rio: weeks of sequinned parades, the election of the Carnival Queen and street parties that run until dawn.

Arts town of carnival and architecture.

Greece's biggest carnival, the Rio-Antirrio bridge and the ferry port for Italy.

River-beach city near the Jesuit ruins.