The Las Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain originated from the tradition of the city's carpenters burning wood scraps and tools each year. The multi-day festival now involves elaborate sculptures called "fallas" erected in the streets that are burned on the final night. Key events include fireworks displays each night, parades, and a procession honoring the Virgin Mary. Typical costumes for participants include an embroidered dress, petticoats, and headpieces for women and traditional regional attire for men. The fallas sculptures comment on current events and issues and can be over 30 meters tall.

1. Las Fallas de
Valencia
By Candela

2. Table of Contents
01
History of Las Fallas
02
Valencia
03
Information
04
Fallas acts
05
Party elements
06
Typical costume

3. The history of
Las Fallas
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4. History of Las Fallas
The origin of the party las Fallas goes back to the ancient
tradition of the city's carpenters, who on the eve of the feast of
their patron Saint Joseph, burned in front of their workshops,
in the streets and public squares, the old and useless junk
together with the wooden gadgets they used to raise the
lamps that illuminate them while they worked in the winter
months.

5. Information
02

6. What do the failures represent?
The Fallas are a ritual of fire, the reflection of old
ceremonies where the flames symbolize the renewal
where old things are burned to give way to new,
when reborn.

7. Most Important Fallas
■ Falla Sueca - Literato Azorín
■ Falla Exposición - Micer Mascó
■ Falla Almirante Cadarso
■ Falla Conde de Altea
■ Falla Reino de Valencia -
Duque de Calabria
■ Falla Na Jornada
■ Falla Convento Jerusalén
■ Falla Cuba Literato Azorín
■ Falla Plaza del Pilar
■ Falla L’Antiga de Campanar
The name of each Falla matches
the street where they are located

8. Fallas Timeline
Mascletá The Plantá Award-giving
from 1st to 19th March 15th March 17th March
Castells de focs
artificials
from 15th to 19th March
The Ofrenda
17th and 18th March
La Nit De La Cremá
19th March
The ride of the fire

9. General information
■ Date of celebration: March 15 to 19
■ Country Spain
■ Community: Valencian Community
■ Province: Valencia
■ Type: Intangible Cultural

10. Mythical Fallas Artists
● Carlos Cortina
● Alfredo Ruíz ● Juan Huerta
● Regino Mas
● Julián Puche

11. 931,639
Visitors to Las Fallas Festival in 2019
1,700 kg
of gunpowder used in the last
mascletá
+400
Fallas are burned every year
+300
artisans and fallero artists in
Valencia

12. Valencia
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13. Spain
from 1st to 19th March
Valencia
is the population of Valencia
834,000
Valencia has mild winters
and hot summers
Clima

14. City of Valencia
Gastronomy
Its mediterraen gastronomy
is one of the best in Spain
The City
Is a very pretty city in which
you can do a lot of things.
Museums
It have a lot of museums
very interesting.
Beach
They beaches are vey good
and the water is very warm.
Architecture
Its architecture is really good

15. The city
It is a map of Valencia
The flag of Valencia

16. Gastronomy
The Paella
Its ones of the typical food in Valencia. It
is made of rice with seafood and fish.

17. Museums
This is the Science museum of
Valencia This is the art and science museum
of Valencia

18. Architecture
This is L´Agora The Oceanographic of Valencia It is Le Palau De Les Arts of
Valencia

19. Beaches
The beaches of Benidorm A beach in Alicante

20. Fallas acts
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21. La Nit de la Cremà
The cremà is the closing ceremony of the
festivities. It consists of the burning of
the Fallas monuments planted in the
streets of Valencia and in its towns on
March 19.
The Ride of Fire
The Cabalgata del Fuego is a parade
that announces the arrival of the fire
that will burn the fallas

22. Castells de focs artificials
During the Fallas festivities, from March
15 to 19, the City Council schedules a
Fireworks Castle every night, which is
fired, depending on the day, between
00:00 and 1:30 in the Alameda area next
to the old Turia riverbed.
The Ofrenda
The ofrenda to the Virgen de los
Desamparados, or, affectionately known as "La
Geperudeta" patron of the city of Valencia and
the Valencian Community. The offering takes
place throughout the afternoon and at the
beginning of the night on March 17 and 18.

23. The Plantá
The 14th and 15th of March at night are the days of
the plantà, the act of erecting the fallas
monuments, better known by the generic name of
fallas. On the 15th in the morning, the monuments
of the children's category are held and between
the 15th and the early morning of the 16th the
large monuments, always having to be planted at
08:00 in the morning of the 16th, at which time
the the jury will present to qualify them
The Crida
La Crida, the proclamation in
Castilian, is held on the last Sunday
of February and is the act in which
the city's largest Fallera, gathers at
its gates, the Torres de Serranos.

24. Cavalcade of the Ninot
The Cabalgata del Ninot takes place a weekend
near the beginning of the Fallas week itself. In it,
different failure commissions expose, in their
parade, a social, political or sporting issue, usually
of a local or regional nature
Ninot
The mascletà
Mascletà in the Plaza del
Ayuntamiento de Valencia.
This act takes place every day at
2:00 p.m., from March 1 to March 19.

25. Party elements
05

26. Beaches
The Fallera Central Board
The Fallera Central Board is the body
that regulates and coordinates the
Fallas festival both in the city of
Valencia with the commissions of
each falla
Fallas Artists
The Fallas Artist performs the Falla, but
there are also Fallas Artists who do
secondary work such as making floats and
decorations for locals, shops and fairs.

27. Fallas commissions
Almost on every street in the
city there is a "fallero house",
a meeting place for each of
the fallas commissions,
Pyrotechnic devices
One of the main elements of the
Fallas festivals are the pyrotechnic
shows, since since the gunpowder
and pyrotechnics arrived with the
Muslims, these have always been
linked to the festivities of the
Valencian people
Music
Music is linked to fallas, as it is such an
important element for the party. The Fallas
commissions hire more than 300 bands for
the party to accompany them to any of the
Fallas acts. Traditionally, the music that
accompanies the festival is the traditional
and popular pasodobles,

28. The Fallas
They usually have character on topical issues.
The faults usually consist of a central figure or
composition several meters high, the largest
exceeding 30 meters

29. Typical
costume
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30. Fallera costume
Shirt: It is the underwear.
Petticoats: They are the underwear that is worn under the skirt.
Stockings: made of fabrics such as silk or cotton and with
embroidery.
Shoes: normally lined with the same fabric as the suit.
Skirt: made of silk and printed with colored flowers.
Bodice: Top of the suit.
The tablecloths: made of materials such as tulle, silk, they are
embroidered with gold or silver thread forming precious drawings.
The combs: They are placed on the bows.

31. Fallera hairstyle

32. Fallero costrume

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By Candela Uría