Yes; the BIG party is starting again soon, very soon and will turn Valencia into a continuous fiesta, day and night.
Last year in May I signed the rental contract of my new flat in the district of Ruzafa, Calle Sueca, in my opinion, the nicest and most easy going district in Valencia. On my first night I noticed that it was impossible to roll down my lovely shutter to close my balcony doors. They were completely burned. When asking the house owner the next day for the reason I realized: I had just had moved into the heart of LAS FALLAS.
The “Sueca-Literato Azorín, Calle Cuba and Convento Jerusalén Fallas” is supposed to be the most traditional and impressive celebration of the festival and it takes place right in front of, yes, my sweet little balcony. So if you are coming to Valencia for Fallas: Come and visit RUZAFA, my barrio and the big party going on there.
The festival normally commences on the first Sunday of March with a big wake-up call, “La Gran Despertá” and ends with” La Cremà”, when the fallas (giant papier-mâché figurines based on current political and cultural figures) are burned. This year “La Gran Despertá” will start on Sunday the 27th of February at 7:30am in Calle de la Paz, so, right next to Babylon Idiomas in Valencia.
Maybe you can already imagine what the wake up call on Sunday morning is about: YEEEEEES, noisy fire crackers, hundreds of “Falleros” throwing thousands of fire crackers all over the streets. I promise: You will be awake to start the big fiesta!!! And don’t worry: the fire crackers will continue – until the end of the big party on the 19th. Every day at 2.00 pm “mascletàs”, an explosive display of powerful bangers, take place at Plaça de L’Ajuntament. But the most incredible event is “La Nit de Foc” (The Night of Fire) on the 18th and 19th of March: Thousands of kilos of gunpowder are burnt through the night lighting up the Valencian night sky whilst more than a million people look on it.
Fallas is not only famous for fireworks and firecrackers. During the whole time the streets of Valencia are decorated wonderfully, marching bands crossing the city all day long and various concerts and parties are organized. Your job is to cross all the party crowds and lively streets to visit as much Fallas as you can before they get burnt on the last night. They are really worth seeing, some of them are nearly 20m high and each one has its own story to tell before they disappear during “La Cremà”.
Sounds like fun? We will be here, studying Spanish and joining the fiesta!!!! You want to learn Spanish in Valencia and join us?
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