The Las Fallas Fiesta in Valencia
Spain, famous for its fiestas, Valencia has to offer the best of them all with its annual “Las Fallas” fiesta, seen as the hottest street party of them all. If you´ve never been in a war zone, Las Fallas is the closest you will get to anything resembling one! Firecrackers and explosives going off on every street, trumpeting parades, the burning of over 350 statues which are put on display in their full satire and beauty...
Spain, famous for its fiestas, Valencia has to offer the best of them all with its annual “Las Fallas” fiesta, seen as the hottest street party of them all. If you´ve never been in a war zone, Las Fallas is the closest you will get to anything resembling one! Firecrackers and explosives going off on every street, trumpeting parades, the burning of over 350 statues which are put on display in their full satire and beauty...
What are the failures?
ReplyDeleteThe Valencia failures become a mirror that distorts and caricature our very existence.
The failures are authentic monuments formed by one or two figures giant surrounded by groups of smaller figures more. The main faults reach reach the 20 metres high, that become central to the monument and represent the issue of the failure, which is explained in the scenes or groups of more surrounding them.
Around of 375 large failures and other child many stand in the city. During four days and four nights stay planted in many streets and squares immense monuments of cardboard, plastic and scandalous, mockery proferida with both art as desenfado.
This is the way to receive the beginning of spring, with explosion and fire (which is what the fault Word). The last day, on 19 March, day of San José, burn them in impressive bonfires, an ancestral; Rite hashy the City Burns by its four sides.