Las Fallas

Month : March
Place : Valencia, Spain
Famous For : Traditional Festival
Attractions : Fallas laoded firecrackers, Valencia costumes, Valencian drum and traditional bands.

The Las Fallas is a populat traditional festival observed in Spain. It"s held every year during the month of March in praise of Saint Joseph in Valencia, Spain. Highlight of this Spanish festivity involves a large number of monuments designed for this special event. The term Falles refers to both the celebration and the monuments created during the celebration. There are more than 500 different falles in Valencia, including those of other towns in the Valencian Community.

Major Attractions

Two week long celebrations of Las Fallas are chiefly centerd towards Casal faller. Each neighbourhood of the city has an organized group of people, the Casal faller, that works all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners. Each casal faller produces a construction known as a falla which is eventually burnt. A casal faller is also known as a comissio fallera. In the month of March, each group takes its ninot out for a grand parade, and then mounts it, each on its own elaborate firecracker-filled cardboard and papier-mache artistic monument in a street of the given neighborhood. This whole assembly is a falla. The ninots and their falles are developed according to an agreed upon theme of the festival. In fact the entire suburban area has been designated the City of Falles - Ciutat fallera. Large numbers of crews of artists and artisans, sculptors, painters, and many others all spend months producing elaborate constructions for the festival of Las Fallas. Other attractions of this festival includes casal faller dress in the regional and Valencia costumes, Valencian drum and traditional bands.