The fallas celebration takes place in Valencia, Spain from March 15-19 each year. The celebration originated as carpenters would burn wooden planks called parots in early spring to celebrate the end of winter, and they began decorating them. Nowadays, enormous figures made of materials like cardboard and plaster called ninots are constructed and then burned on the night of March 19th, called La Cremá. The fallas festival is known for its noisy celebrations with fireworks and explosions throughout the city attracting tourists each year.

2. The fallas celebration
 The fallas celebration takes place in Valencia from 15 to
19 of March.

3. Origin
Saint Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters, is the
official focus for the festival. In the Middle Ages,
carpenters used to hang up planks of wood called
parots in the winter to support their candles when they
were working. At the beginning of spring they burned
them as a way of celebrating the end of dark. After a
while they began to put clothing on the parots.

4. Nowadays, people burn ninots, enormous cardboard,
wooden, plaster and papier maché figures. Every
neighbourhood raise the necessary finances for
constructing the ninots which are burned during the
night called La Cremá (19th March).

5. The fallas is a festival of noise and fire which attracts
foreign visitors as well as Spanish tourists from all over
the world. There are crackers, pyrotechnical explosions
and fireworks all over the city.

6. Ninots

7. Ninots

8. La Cremá