cariocas love this day, and cards are exchanged among good friends as well, so anyone with a friend in rio should definitely have a card ready - especially given all the special settings in bars, clubs, and restaurants for the occasion.

With diverse ideas as of the origin of such a happy date, Brazil celebrates the dia dos amigos (friend's day) on the 20th of July. according to the Argentinean version, on july 20th 1969, marking the arrival of the Man to the Moon, Enrique Ernesto Febbraro sent thousands of letters to various countries and in many languages to highlight the power and happiness that would come from global union and fraternity.