La Plantà 2023 – Pulling and Dragging the first Fallas Pieces into the Streets of Valencia
Around the first weekend of March, a parade called the Cabalgata del Ninot kicks off La Plantà.
What Is Vladimir Putin Doing at the Ninot Exhibition for Fallas 2023?
There are literally hundreds and hundreds of ninots to admire.
The Gran Fira de Valencia Correfoc 2022 – Fire Parade Through The City Center
Surprise Correfoc - Imagine you've just arrived in Valencia for the first time. It was a long train ride, and it's late at night. As you leave the train station, you walk straight into a Correfoc.
This Was Fallas 2022 – The Rainiest on Record
With this post, we're going to wrap up Fallas 2022. After a couple misfires (2020's truncated festival due to Covid-19, and 2021's mini-version in the autumn), the city had been primed for a glorious celebration in 2022. But it wasn't to be. The worst rains in the history of Fallas plagued the city, along with heavy winds and cold temperatures.
Fallas 2022 – The Cabalgata del Fuego & La Cremà of Falla Serranos
March 19th is traditionally the last day of Fallas. The festival has been building momentum for weeks, and you could describe the 19th as its climax. After the final 2pm mascletà at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, many Fallas commissions shoot off their own street mascletàs, causing the entire city to vibrate, with all the fireworks going off all over the place.
La Ofrendà for Fallas 2022 – Through Wind and Rain to Deliver Flowers to the Virgin
The Ofrendà is yet another act during Fallas which depends on good weather. This year, even up to the beginning of the parades on the 17th, nobody was certain if they'd happen or not. The weather forecasts were predicting rain and winds, but the organizers decided to go ahead and push through.
A Walk Through Valencia to see the Fallas Figures of 2022
Come along with us to admire the Fallas figures of 2022, which we encountered during the course of a couple marathon walks through the city of Valencia. Usually, Fallas marks the start of spring, when normally temperatures are rising -- it's almost t-shirt weather, with the sun out and everyone in a great mood.
La Plantà – Building the Monuments for Fallas 2022
The process of building the Fallas figures is called La Plantà - Many visitors to Valencia's Fallas come only for the last five days of the festival, when all the figures are more or less done. To them, it's like arriving to a perfectly set table -- they haven't seen all the work which goes into these monuments, some of which require up to two weeks to put together.
