Fallas
Fallas 2010 in pictures
Mar 24
I hope you all enjoyed Fallas 2010. While “la crisis” may have meant it was less spectacular than previous years, Valencia still put on a great show.
A friend of mine was visiting from England, and once she got past the initial shock of seeing children being allowed to throw fireworks in the street, I think she had a good time.
Here are some of my pictures from our wanderings around Valencia. Please share yours!
THE FALLAS ARE COMING: THE CITY SMELLS OF GUN POWDER
Mar 1
March is about to start and so are the sunny days and this peculiar smell which fills the city. No, we’re not at war, that’s just the gun powder of the jumping crackers, of the traca, of the mascletas and the fireworks which fill the city with a smell which we Valencians have in our venes and which makes us feel alive.
The Fallas are acted out on the streets, from 1st of March until the 19th, every day at 2 p.m. there’s a mascletà at the Pl. Ayuntamiento. The mascletas last about twenty minutes and consist of millions of high potential jumping crackers which explode. The noise and the smell of gun powder join each other until the end of the mascletà.
