Tag: New Year’s Eve

• Friday, December 3rd 2021 - 08:53 UTC

  No New Year's Eve parties in Brazil due to Omicron

  

  Brazilian authorities are evaluating a series of restrictions for the upcoming year ending celebrations in a move to curb the spread of the new coronavirus Omicron variant, it was reported Thursday.

• Tuesday, January 9th 2018 - 09:55 UTC

  World's largest party: New Year celebrations in Rio beaches attracted 2.4 million people

  

  Where was the best New Year party in the World? At Times Square New York in below zero temperature or on a sunny summer beach day in Rio De Janeiro with 2.4 million happy tourists and locals going wild. On Sunday, December 31st, 2.4 million people gathered on Copacabana’s beach to welcome 2018. According to Riotur, this is the largest audience ever registered in Copacabana’s New Year’s Eve celebration, considered one of the best in the world.

• Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 06:45 UTC

  The most spectacular New Year parties in Brazil, says World Travel Guide

  

  Rain on the last night of 2011 but which stopped a few minutes before 24 tons of fireworks were set off didn’t stop 2 million people from attending Rio de Janeiro’s main New Year’s festival, an event that was confirmed to be the largest of its kind in the world.