Every March Valencia gets ready to welcome the spring. Las Fallas is undoubtedly, it is one of the most unique and the crazy festivals in the Spain. The streets fill up with the joy and the hustle and bustle of the Fallas Festival. Then again, Spain is the country known for its unique and the odd fiestas. What started as the feast day for the feast day for the St. Joseph, the patron saint of the carpenters which has evolved into the 5-day, multifaceted celebration involving the fire.
The people of the Valencia live their most international festival to the maximum and their kind and the natural character invites everyone to visit the city and join in the fiesta, where everything that is bad is burnt and reborn from ashes to welcome the new season.
Las Fallas means “the fires” in the Valencia. The main focus of the fiesta is the creation and the destruction of the “puppets” od “dolls” (“ninots”), which are the huge cardboard, wood, paper- machè and the plaster statues. The ninots or the puppets are extremely lifelike and usually depicts the bawdy, satirical scenes and the current events.
Events during the Fallas:
The 5 days and night of the event of Fallas are continuing party. There are multitudes of the processions historical, religious, and comedic. The crowd is seen everywhere whether in the restaurants spill out into the streets.
La Despertà:
Every day of the Fallas begins at the 8.00 am with the La Despertà also known as the wake-up call. The Brass bands appears from the casals and begin to the march down the evry street playing the lively music.
La Mascletà
The Mascletà, an explosive barrage of coordinated firecracker and fireworks displays, takes place in each neighbourhood at 2:00 pm every day of the festival. The Mascletà is almost unique to the Valencian Community, hugely popular with the Valencian people and found in very few other places in the world. Smaller neighbourhoods often hold their own mascletà for saint's days, weddings and other celebrations.
La Plantà
The day of the 15th all of the falles infantils are to be finished being constructed and later that night all of the falles majors (major Falles) are to be completed. If not, they face disqualification.
L'Ofrena de florsA
In this event, the flower offering, each falla casal takes an offering of flowers to the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of the Abandoned. This occurs all day during the fest. A statue of the Virgin Mary and its large pedestal are then covered with all the flowers.
La Cremá
The puppets remain in the place until the day known as the Burning (La Cremá ). It starts in the early evening, the young men with the axes chop it cleverly-hidden holes in the statues and stuff them with the fireworks. All the crowds start to chant, all the streetlights are turned off and all of the ninots are set on the fire exactly at 12.am (midnight). From over the years the firemen (local bomberos) have devised the unique ways to protect the town’s buildings from being accidentally set on the fire by the ninots such as neatly covering the storefronts with the fireproof traps. Every year, one of the ninots is spared from the destruction by the popular vote. This ninots is called as the pardoned puppet or the ninot indultat and it is exhibited in the local Museum of Ninotalong with the other favourites from the past years.
Besides the burning of the puppets, there is the myriad of the other activities during the fiesta. During the day, one can enjoy the extensive roster of the bullfights, paella contest, parades and beauty pageants around the city.
Fire, fireworks, smoke, and excitement make this festival a cross between Disney World and the apocalypse.
The people of the Valencia live their most international festival to the maximum and their kind and the natural character invites everyone to visit the city and join in the fiesta, where everything that is bad is burnt and reborn from ashes to welcome the new season.
Las Fallas means “the fires” in the Valencia. The main focus of the fiesta is the creation and the destruction of the “puppets” od “dolls” (“ninots”), which are the huge cardboard, wood, paper- machè and the plaster statues. The ninots or the puppets are extremely lifelike and usually depicts the bawdy, satirical scenes and the current events.
Events during the Fallas:
The 5 days and night of the event of Fallas are continuing party. There are multitudes of the processions historical, religious, and comedic. The crowd is seen everywhere whether in the restaurants spill out into the streets.
La Despertà:
Every day of the Fallas begins at the 8.00 am with the La Despertà also known as the wake-up call. The Brass bands appears from the casals and begin to the march down the evry street playing the lively music.
La Mascletà
The Mascletà, an explosive barrage of coordinated firecracker and fireworks displays, takes place in each neighbourhood at 2:00 pm every day of the festival. The Mascletà is almost unique to the Valencian Community, hugely popular with the Valencian people and found in very few other places in the world. Smaller neighbourhoods often hold their own mascletà for saint's days, weddings and other celebrations.
La Plantà
The day of the 15th all of the falles infantils are to be finished being constructed and later that night all of the falles majors (major Falles) are to be completed. If not, they face disqualification.
L'Ofrena de florsA
In this event, the flower offering, each falla casal takes an offering of flowers to the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of the Abandoned. This occurs all day during the fest. A statue of the Virgin Mary and its large pedestal are then covered with all the flowers.
La Cremá
The puppets remain in the place until the day known as the Burning (La Cremá ). It starts in the early evening, the young men with the axes chop it cleverly-hidden holes in the statues and stuff them with the fireworks. All the crowds start to chant, all the streetlights are turned off and all of the ninots are set on the fire exactly at 12.am (midnight). From over the years the firemen (local bomberos) have devised the unique ways to protect the town’s buildings from being accidentally set on the fire by the ninots such as neatly covering the storefronts with the fireproof traps. Every year, one of the ninots is spared from the destruction by the popular vote. This ninots is called as the pardoned puppet or the ninot indultat and it is exhibited in the local Museum of Ninotalong with the other favourites from the past years.
Besides the burning of the puppets, there is the myriad of the other activities during the fiesta. During the day, one can enjoy the extensive roster of the bullfights, paella contest, parades and beauty pageants around the city.
Fire, fireworks, smoke, and excitement make this festival a cross between Disney World and the apocalypse.
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