Origins of the festival:The history of Carnival in Pernambuco is rooted in the old "entrudo" European. This is a European pagan festival came to Brazil, obviously, with the Portuguese colonizers, in which participants threw Carnival flour, water stains and dirty with each other. Regarded as something violent, "entrudo" was officially banned in the late nineteenth century, although many "aggiornarlo" custom throwing confetti and streamers.In 1846 he first performed a dance with masks. In 1852 he included percussionists. In 1855 Carnival groups began to emerge in 1935 was made first official parade in the Plaza Once. Since 1984 takes place in the Gateway today called Professor Darcy Ribeiro has capacity for 62,000 people.