SPAIN valencia (las fallas)
to valencia for ‘las fallas!’ every year, valencia celebrates st. joseph’s day (march 19) with a TWO WEEK festival! basically, neighborhoods spend all year fundraising so they can erect sculptures with paper -mache to display around the city. the theme is “anything that can be parodied,” so the creations can be anything from spanish politicians to celebrities. the size of these things are incredible;they range in size from about 5 feet to over 30 feet tall! some are erected in intersections of the respective neighborhoods, while others take over plazas with their presence(check out my photos!). how do they cap off the festivities and get rid of the sculptures? by burning them ofcourse! after all this work, they go out in style by being burnt to the ground.
another feature of the fallas is fireworks. oh my god. not only are there firework displays during the day and night, a lot of people have them and set them off all day. you can’t walk down a street without hearing loud bangs as even little kids set light them and throw them onto the street. the worst is at night. i don’t think anyone sleeps during fallas because the streets were still packed at 5am! this means that drunk people throw them at crowds so you have be ready to run. i think i had about twenty heart attacks that night. ay dios mio.
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