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Las Fallas de Valencia

From March 1 to 19, Valencia is dedicated to celebrating the Fallas, a festival that combines tradition, satire and art and that you should not miss for anything in the world.

The origin of the Fallas is found in an ancient custom of carpenters who, celebrating the arrival of spring, on the night of the 19th burned in front of their workshops the pieces of wood (parots) that they used to raise the lamps that illuminated them during the spring and winter.

Little by little, they added old junk and rags to this purifying fire, which humanized the parots until they became ninots. The humor of the Valencians soon gave these ninots the critical and ironic sense that they maintain today.

Today, fallas have evolved to become ephemeral works of art that, in some cases, have million-dollar budgets.