Samba school Mocidade Alegre wins the Sao Paulo Carnival again

The samba school Mocidade Alegre, located in the Limao region, in the north of the city, has again become the champion of the carnival parades in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, repeating the title won last year. The tally of the scores awarded by the jury members who attended the parades of the 14 Special Group Schools in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday was opened late Tuesday evening at the same Anyembi Sambadrome where they performed.

The school, which scored 270 points, won the much-contested title by crafting on the samba podium of Brazil’s largest city a sumptuous and sophisticated story about the great journey that writer Mario de Andrade first made through the most remote corners of Brazil. last century. Mocidade brought to the avenue images of different regions of Brazil, different traditions, gastronomy, music and habits of its inhabitants, with many details, colors and rhythms that excited not only the audience, but also the strict jury members.

In second place with the same 270 points, but with the loss of one of the tiebreaker criteria, was Escola de Samba Dragões da Real, which presented in Anyembi a plot reminiscent of and paying tribute to the ancient kings and queens of Africa, and in third place was Académicos do Tatuapé . , just two tenths of the other two, who developed a parade rich in allegories, paying tribute to the city of Mata de São João, a paradise with beautiful beaches and a rich and varied cuisine, located in the metropolitan region of Salvador da Bahia. The Tom Mayor Schools, who surprisingly had the crowd in the stands during the parade, were among the favorites for the title, while Independente Tricolor ended up in the bottom two places and dropped to the middle division of the Sao Paulo Carnival. .