Valencia Part 2- Las Fallas

July 22, 2013

We also went to the museum of the fallas.

Every March in Valencia there is a big celebration called Las Fallas. Hundreds of statues are made out of flamable material that are caricatures of people and concepts, like three dimentional cartoons.

 

After hundreds of these fallas are paraded down the streets, there is a vote, and one is pardoned. That one will go in the museum and the rest go up in flames.

Accompanying the fallas are falleros, girls and women dressed in traditional Valecian dresses (I'll write more about that in a later post).

A falla in progress