Las Fallas in Valencia
March 26, 2009
I just returned from Spain’s (and Europe’s) largest spring festival in which fireworks play a central role. Las Fallas in Valencia, on Spain’s eastern coast, is celebrated from March 15 through March 19 every year. A riot of fireworks explodes throughout the city at 2:00 PM daily from March 1 until March 19 in the mascletàs–fireworks displays orchestrated by pyrotechnics experts and huge artistic creations called fallas (over 700 of them) dot plazas throughout the city until the night of March 19 when the cartoonish creations are set alight, unleashing the fireworks contained in their interiors and destroying the year’s creation. All of the festivities continue well into the night, or morning. Let’s just say it is a week when few in Valencia get much sleep.
Join us in 2010 for our Valencia Food and Wine Tour during Las Fallas. We will as usual focus on the fantastic food and wine of the region, tasting the best foods, have a paella-making demonstration in the Albufera lagoon area, visit wineries and meet some of Valencia’s most renowned chefs. We will stay in Valencia city center, close to the main centers of Fallas activity, in a luxury hotel.
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