Fallas is a holiday of spring, which is held annually from March 14 to 19 in the Spanish province of Valencia. Its name comes from Latin fax, which means "torch". Like every national celebration, the Spaniards celebrate the Festival of Fallas on a wide scale.
Festivities usually begin with a parade of pyrotechnics, or Mascleta. On all city streets fireworks, all kinds of salutes and firecrackers are massively launched. Just like we have for the New Year! Do not regret the locals and tourists and often throw at the feet of newcomers "bombs." But the noisy Spanish festivities seem to only attract travelers. Every year to look at Fallas comes 2 million (!) Tourists.
This holiday does not end there. The next stage of Fallas is a floral festival in honor of the Patron Saint of all the defenseless. These days the city literally drowns in flowering plants. All the Valencian women and girls dress in beautiful national dresses and ornaments and go to the square to lay flowers to the patroness statue. The 14-meter-high sculpture of the Holy Virgin is created by the best master florists from fragrant plants
Then a giant paella (national Spanish dish) is cooked at the Valencia stadium, then everyone is treated.
The culmination of Fallas is the fire festival called La Crema. A few days before the X-hour, gigantic dolls made of papier-mache are installed throughout the city. This, as a rule, real cartoon and cartoon characters. Usually these sculptures reflect some unpleasant social phenomena and human vices.
It turns out just like our burning stuffed for Pancake week. Only the Spanish holiday blazes the whole city. That the matter has not reached the state of emergency, each blazing sculpture after a while extinguishes firemen. And fun and dancing in the meantime continue until the very morning.