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Annual Fallas In Spain's Valencia Come To A Spectacular And Noisy End

This is the most popular festival in Spain according to Google searches – so have YOU been yet?

VALENCIA’S Fallas celebrations were the most-searched Spanish fiesta on Google worldwide last year, with 1.3 million searches. It’s the second successive year that the March

11 Mar, 2024 @ 14:10

La Cultura·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Committee member for one of Valencia’s ‘fallas’ suffers homophobic attack during fiestas

A MEMBER of one of the committees in charge of creating the huge papier-mache fallas at the Valencia fiestas of the same name has been

16 Mar, 2023 @ 19:30

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Fifteen injured by pyrotechnic shell at Fallas fiestas in Spain’s Valencia

AT LEAST 15 people were injured at Valencia’s Fallas fiestas on Friday, after a pyrotechnic shell went off inside a safety area during the daily

11 Mar, 2023 @ 10:00

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Spain's Valencia In Final Countdown For Annual Fallas Events

Spain’s Valencia in final countdown for annual Fallas celebrations

VALENCIA is putting together the finishing touches to preparations for the annual Fallas celebrations which start on March 1. Special street lighting is being erected

21 Feb, 2023 @ 11:58

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Valencia's Fallas Festival In Spain May Introduce Daily Firecracker Ban To Help Distressed Pets

Valencia’s Fallas festival in Spain may introduce firecracker restriction to help distressed pets

VALENCIA’S Fallas festival in February and March could be getting a firecracker ‘quiet zone’ to offer some respite for both humans and their pets. Valencia

13 Jan, 2023 @ 19:30

La Cultura·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

IN PICS: Shock and awe as Valencia’s Las Fallas festival celebrates with a bang

VALENCIA’S famous festival of Las Fallas is back with a bang after two years of being cancelled during the pandemic. Each day the celebrations erupt

10 Mar, 2022 @ 11:00

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Spectacular world-famous Fallas featuring fireworks and giant statues returns to Spain's Valencia

Spectacular world-famous Fallas featuring fireworks and giant statues return to Spain’s Valencia

THE Fallas de Valencia celebrations are in full swing with a return to pre-pandemic schedules. The heady mix of fireworks, bonfires, flowers, festivals, and eye-catching

2 Mar, 2022 @ 18:45

La Cultura·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

La Crema In Fallas In Valencia, Spain 05 Sept 2021

World-famous Fallas festivities finally go ahead in Spain’s Valencia despite COVID and the weather

FALLAS 2021 went up in smoke last night (Sunday) in what was widely considered one of the strangest editions in the history of the festivities.

6 Sep, 2021 @ 12:00

La Cultura·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

FALLAS ARE GO! Monuments begin arriving at their usual locations ready to be set up for the strangest festivities ever in Spain’s Valencia

FINALLY, more than two years later, the Fallas have returned to Valencia city. By far the region’s most characteristic and world-famous festivity, last year’s cancellation

23 Aug, 2021 @ 13:30

La Cultura·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

San Juan feast beach fun gets banished by COIVD-19 for a second year in the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

San Juan beach celebrations cancelled again by COVID-19 in the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

TRADITIONAL San Juan festival beach parties will be strictly prohibited in the Valencian Community later this month. Regional Health Minister, Ana Barcelo, said: “If we

2 Jun, 2021 @ 18:30

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Fallas Festival In Valencia, Spain 18 Mar 2019

FALLAS IN SEPTEMBER: Iconic Fallas festivities in Spain’s Valencia region will take place in September this year

As well as the actual monuments, the Fallas involve a huge number of activities and people, including flower offerings, extremely loud mascleta firecracker displays, parades,

17 May, 2021 @ 15:45

Alicante·Castellon·La Cultura·Lead·Must Read·Travel News·Valencia·Valencian Community

FALLAS SNOWED OFF?: Parts of Spain’s Valencia covered in white as region registers extremely unusual low temperatures for time of year

Check www.aemet.es for updated weather information throughout Spain.

19 Mar, 2021 @ 11:15

Alicante·La Cultura·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community·Weather

SCHOOL IS FINALLY OUT: U-turn on plans to cancel school holidays for this year’s Fallas in Valencia

The decision taken by the education authorities in the Valencian capital is expected to be replicated by most local school boards throughout the region.

5 Mar, 2021 @ 13:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Education·Valencia

School holidays have gone up in smoke this year

SCHOOL’S NOT OUT: Fallas and Magdalena school holidays cancelled this year

THIS year’s Fallas and Magdalena fiestas in Valencia and Castellon will be normal school days. The Valencian government this week announced the cancellation of the

26 Feb, 2021 @ 17:00

Alicante·Education·La Cultura·Valencia·Valencian Community

Valencia – the city of Las Fallas

OP Blogger Fiona Tomas takes a trip to Valencia to get a taste of the Fallas festival

23 Mar, 2015 @ 11:20

Fiona Tomas: Granadian Guiri Girl