Fallas

The big celebration of the year has begun in Valencia. Las Fallas is the big celebration to celebrate the end of the winter and welcome in the spring. What better way to do that than a big two week celebration of fireworks, parades, and fire.

Fallas are giant works of art made out of combustable materials. They are placed in the middle of streets and plazas all over the city. These fallas are beautiful and they spend up to thousands for one falla. As soon as the fallas is over the comittee starts planning for next years fallas.

The last couple of weeks the city has been setting up camp. There are lights and tiny flags hung all over the city. The actual fallas have not been built yet but you can see them being delivered and ready to set up within the next week.

The mascleta which are the fireworks begin everyday at 2pm. Each day there is a different pyrotechnic company all competing against each other. Brent and I went to the city center today to witness for ourselves. They were loud. Very loud! The earth was shaking.

Tomorrow besides the daily mascleta there will be fireworks on the beach at 6 and some parade in the city center at 10:30 pm

It's very interesting to read about. If your interested there are pics and good info on wikipedia.

From the 17th thru 19th the fallas will be displayed all over the city. On the last night the fallas are all burned. Very large bonfires that require the firemen to douse the neighborhood as they burn.