GRES Acadêmicos de Santa Cruz

The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Acadêmicos de Santa Cruz is a samba school of the city of Rio de Janeiro, located in the Rua do Império, in Santa Cruz's neighborhood. Among the schools of samba of the Rio Carnival it is the one that locates more distant of the Sambadrome. Now it participates in the access Group A.

History

The school was created on February 18 of 1959 by a dissident group called Garotos do Ita. They are José Ramos Cordeiro, Altamiro de Oliveira, Guilherme José de Andrade, Luiz dos Santos Oliveira (Hominho), Benedito Antônio do Nascimento (Coragem), Hélio de Carvalho (Petico), Ubirajara das Neves (Bira), Áureo Cordeiro Ramos (Mestre Áureo), José Vieira Félix (Dindica), Otacílio de Souza, Manoel José de Santana (Biéca), Otávio Dantas (Tavinho) e Luiz Cordeiro Ramos.

It has the green and white colors. It had as initial symbol the illustration of a bull for influence of the farms of the area and of Santa Cruz's Slaughterhouse. Later the symbol of the school was substituted by the illustration of a crown, and in some years the school had in the flag a star.

Goddaughter of the Unidos de Bangu and godmother of the Unidos do Uraiti, The Acadêmicos de Santa Cruz had the first parades in 1960, 1961 and 1962 in Santa Cruz's own place, West zone of Rio de Janeiro. Still in 1962, joined to the Confederação das Escolas de Samba and it had for the first time in the city on December 2, for occasion of the 1° Congresso do Samba. In 1963, it disputed the carnival in the Praça Onze (Group 3) and it was champion. In 1965, Acadêmicos of Santa Cruz it was champion of the Group 2, for occasion of the carnival of the IV Centennial and it was already among the great schools of the carioca carnival the following year. It lived unstable periods in the 1970s oscillating between the second and third group. However in the 1980s the school reached the necessary maturity forever showing in the fight for one of the vacancies of the main group of the samba schools. The school was in this group in the years of 1966 and 1970. And with more frequency in 1984 (supercampeonato), 1985, 1990, 1992, 1997 and 2003.

Classifications

Titles and Prizes

Championships

* 1963 - Group 3 - "Rio de Outras Eras"
* 1965 - Group 2 - "Rio, Quatro Séculos de Glórias"
* 1969 - Group 2 - "O Rio dos Vice-Reis"
* 1973 - Group 3 - "O Rio de Todos os Tempos"
* 1980 - Group 2A - "Um Domingo na Quinta da Boa Vista"
* 1989 - Group 2 - "Stanislaw, uma História sem Final"
* 1996 - Group A - "Ribalta - Luz, Sonho e Ilusão"
* 2002 - Group A - "Papel - Das Origens à Folia - História, Arte e Magia"

Estandarte de Ouro

* 1990 - Mestre-Sala - Alex
* 1991 - Samba-Enredo of Acess Group
* 1995 - Samba-Enredo of Acess Group

External links

* [http://www.academicosdesantacruz.com.br Official Site]