fallas 2007

In Valencia, the Fallas festival, including the painfully loud "Mascleta" and the astonishingly enormous Fallas themselves are the only reason you need to visit Spain at least once in your lifetime. Some 700 or so "fallas", or large and small papier-mache monuments mounted over wood frames, are burnt to cinders on the evening of 19th March. "Falla" (the monument itself) originated from the wooden candleholders, called "parots" or "pelmodos" that city carpenters used in their workshops during the winter. They would bring them out into the streets in the spring and