What is the festival celebrated in brazil with several days of parades, music, and dance, which combines religious traditions of southern europe with the music and dance of africa and the americas?
a. capoeira
b. lent
c. carnival
d. curitiba

The festival celebrated in Brazil with several days of parades, music and dance is the (C) Carnival.

The Carnival is celebrated every year, 46 days before Easter. It has its roots in the Roman Catholic Church, where individuals celebrated one last day of merriment, drinking and dancing before the beginning of Lent, a period of abstinence.

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