If you have a ticket to Rio de Janeiro this year-end, you will enjoy reading these news. If you still don’t know where to go for New Year holiday week, here is a good suggestion.
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, announced the city’s New Year’s Eve program for 2025. The city will host shows of Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethânia, Ivete Sangalo – for the first time at the Rio festival (She is from another state, Bahia), Anitta, Xand Avião and the 2024 carnival champion, the school of samba Unidos de Viradouro.
In total, there will be 13 stages spread throughout the city. However, the expectation is that Copacabana alone, the main celebration venue, will receive up to two million people on the night of the last day of 2024.
According to the mayor, this year’s event will have the largest number of shows in the history of Rio’s New Year’s Eve, with 20 shows still to be announced. “What we want is to receive visitors, so we are inviting everyone to spread out throughout the city’s New Year’s Eve parties,” he said in an interview.
The president of the Rio Municipal Tourism Company (RioTur), Patrick Côrrea, emphasized that New Year’s Eve will be celebrated not only in Copacabana, but in several locations in the city “Last year, several stages around the city attracted five million people to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Rio, so we want to surpass that mark,” he pointed out.
Fireworks
In 2025, ten rafts will be distributed along Copacabana beach for the 12-minute fireworks that will be displayed between December 31 and January 1. In 2024, the celebrations at Copacabana beach brought together 2.5 million people. According to Rio’s city government, the economic transfer was R$3 billion last New Year’s Eve.
“We want hotels to be full, bars, restaurants and businesses to be productive. One of Rio’s most important activities is tourism, people who come to visit [the city], and the entertainment industry,” said Mayor Eduardo Paes.
“Rio is a city with many options and alternatives, so we always want to encourage and create reasons for people to come to Rio de Janeiro, not only because of its natural beauty, tourist attractions and historical sites. We always want to have major events and gatherings here,” concluded the mayor.
Source: Agência Brasil