The fallas celebration

 The fallas celebration takes place in Valencia from 15th

to 19th of March.
 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.
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).
 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.
Ninots
Ninots
La Cremá