{"id":3207,"date":"2012-02-16T03:45:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2012-02-16T03:45:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:45:24","slug":"recifes-embassy-of-giant-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/recifes-embassy-of-giant-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Recife&#8217;s Embassy of Giant Dolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Carnival in Brazil! But year-round, you can see one of Recife and Olinda&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/carnival-in-recife\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carnival traditions<\/a> on display at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonecosgigantesdeolinda.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\">Embaixada dos Bonecos Gigantes<\/a>, or Embassy of Giant Dolls. Located in old Recife, you can see the amazing craftmanship of the massive dolls that are a part of Recife&#8217;s Carnival festivities for the year, and take funny pictures with costumes they have on hand. I had a chance to visit last week and loved it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6870.jpg\" aria-label=\"DSCF6870 300x225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3208\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6870-300x225.jpg\"><\/a>The bonecos range from famous politicians&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6883.jpg\" aria-label=\"DSCF6883 300x225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3209\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6883-300x225.jpg\"><\/a>to the Pope&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6874.jpg\" aria-label=\"DSCF6874 300x225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3211\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6874-300x225.jpg\"><\/a>&#8230;to Brazilian TV hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little <a href=\"http:\/\/basilio.fundaj.gov.br\/pesquisaescolar\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=467&amp;Itemid=181\" target=\"_blank\">background<\/a> on the giant doll tradition:<\/p>\n<p><em>A participa\u00e7\u00e3o dos bonecos gigantes no carnaval \u00e9 muito antiga. J\u00e1 em\u00a01919, a\u00a0figura do Z\u00e9 Pereira, criada pelo foli\u00e3o Gumercindo Pires de Carvalho, animava o carnaval de Bel\u00e9m de S\u00e3o Francisco, cidade do sert\u00e3o pernambucano. Em 1929, Gumercindo criou uma boneca gigante para companheira de Z\u00e9 Pereira, que chamou de Vitalina. Ao longo dos anos, foram surgindo outros bonecos. Em Olinda, o popular Homem da Meia-Noite\u00a0surgiu em fevereiro de 1931, quando um grupo de associados, descontentes por n\u00e3o terem sido contemplados na chapa oficial da diretoria da tro\u00e7a\u00a0O Cariri, criou o que seria, ent\u00e3o, um dos mais conhecidos bonecos gigantes foli\u00f5es de Olinda: o Homem da Meia Noite, confeccionado pelo marceneiro entalhador Benedito Barba\u00e7a e pelo pintor de parede Luciano de Queiroz, que era conhecido pelas suas habilidades na manipula\u00e7\u00e3o das cores das tintas, das massas e dos pinc\u00e9is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See the bonecos in action here!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Encontro dos bonecos gigantes no carnaval de Olinda\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzMIsOXA2iw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sbh1QFw-G8s\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sbh1QFw-G8s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6874-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6874-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6874-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/DSCF6874-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>It&#8217;s Carnival in Brazil! But year-round, you can see one of Recife and Olinda&#8217;s Carnival traditions on display at the Embaixada dos Bonecos Gigantes, or Embassy of Giant Dolls. Located in old Recife, you can see the amazing craftmanship of the massive dolls that are a part of Recife&#8217;s Carnival festivities for the year, and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/recifes-embassy-of-giant-dolls\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1991],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carnival"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}