intrinsic to rio's soulful culture, is samba, and while never far from samba at any given night, samba has a grip on the city on a saturday night.

visitors looking for some definitive samba, would be wise to experience the saturday night salgueiro samba school street party - as one of the most famous samba schools in the city, their weekly street party in the streets of tijuca is now the stuff of legends.

for another exemplary example of rio samba, clube dos democraticos, hosts a forró and roda de samba party every saturday night.