Fiestas

Valencia is home to a number of popular festivals from the religious to the profane: a melting pot of rituals and rites, gunpowder and gardening, music and mayhem whose clearest expression is seen, heard and even smelt in the incredible firework displays that are an integral part of the celebrations.

LAS FALLAS
Thousands of decorative lights adorn a city awakening from a deep sleep and looking for some fun; the people are preparing for the greatest of all the festivals, the huge street pantomime and satire of modern life that is "Las Fallas".
The Las Fallas festivals are an expression of the soul of a people, a people that were born and live under a resplendent sun aside a glittering sea, a people that have enjoyed quiet romantic evenings, the rural agricultural life and the streets of a vibrant, exciting city: in las fallas, all these influences are combined with a seamless simplicity.

The origins of the festival
When autumn arrived and the days became shorter, artisans were able to continue their work by the light of crafted wooden lamps known as parot, estai, pagés, pelmodo or perniodol…