Rio Carnival 2018 | Champions parade | União da Ilha, Império Serrano

Rio Carnival 2018. Champions parade. União da Ilha, Império Serrano parade.
Best moments of the parade of the "União da Ilha" and "Império Serrano".
União da Ilha spreads colors, refinement and even aromas of Brazilian cuisine by Sapucaí. The school spread scents of food down the avenue: the open-wing car smelled of coffee; the car over cocoa exuded chocolate; I also had pineapple, melon, lemon. The "fitness muse" Gracyane Barbosa was queen of drums, ahead of the ritmistas dressed as cooks. The parade began with foods served to the Portuguese - such as jelly of roses. Then the Island went through the indigenous (pineapple, cashew, peppers, tucunaré, etc.) and african (feijoada, melão, acarajé, etc) contrituições in the formation of Brazilian cuisine.
Império Serrano returns to the Special Group honoring China and Arlindo Cruz. The returned to the Special Group after seven years away from the elite. Even with a storyline that honors China, the green and white school also reminded Arlindo Cruz, a sambista who recovers from a stroke and is highly identified with the Império. The 3500 members came in 28 wings with a trip through Chinese culture. The nine-time elite champion school presented images identified to China as the Imperial dragons on tripods near the car's wings. Classical Chinese symbols such as the China Wall (in the fourth car) have lived with other more playful, such as the Kung Fu Panda character in the children's ward. The Chinese doctrines were also remembered: wings showed Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The second car featured a lotus flower, symbol of purity.