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Rio de Janeiro 440th Birthday!

Filed under: Rio de Janeiro - February 28th, 2005

Rio de Janeiro will be celebrating its 440th birthday on March 1st!! The city is ready to celebrate this memorable moment. Many celebrations will be going on throughout the city. Special presentations are going to be held at Corcovado, Sugar Loaf Mountain and Copacabana Beach.

As part of the celebration, the ilumination of the Statue of Christ will be changed to color blue exceptionally in the night that Rio turns 440th . In this occasion the color blue will be representing Peace. For 2005, Promoting Peace is the theme to be reflected by catolic people during the Lent, so Rio’s Birthday Organizators deciced to use the same theme in their most popular Monument.

The celebration will be going on during the whole month of March. On March 21st the famous rock singer Lenny Kravitz will be performing alive on the beach of Copacabana. The concert will be opened to all the people on the beach for free.

It is summer time in Brazil, the weather is really hot, so here is a good oportunnity to visit Rio de Janeiro during its birthday. This city full of enchants will be even more beautiful during it’s month birthday.