Notizie  FALLAS 2010! Enjoy the Fallas with Taronja School while taking a Spanish course!
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FALLAS 2010! Enjoy the Fallas with Taronja School while taking a Spanish course! |
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A fiesta of international tourist interest. The Fallas have their
origins in a ritual celebrating the arrival of spring, later converted
by the church into a commemoration of the day of San José.The
inhabitants of Valencia
used to throw their old furniture and junk
in the street and burn it as a symbol of purification,showing that
winter had gone and spring had arrived. |
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Over time, they also began to burn satirical figures representing those
they most detested in the city. Nowadays this spontaneous fiesta is
very different indeed. The Fallas as we know them today date back to
the 18th century.
There are currently some 400 comisiones falleras – falla groups – in
Valencia. Each of them sets up its own Falla and celebrates the fiestas
in the open air.The Fallas are real works of art made from papiermâché
and represent satirical scenes,normally referring to current affairs
and Valencian customs.
The Falla artists responsible for creating the Fallas zealously protect
the subjects and designs of their monuments, which are only unveiled on
the night of March 15th,when all the Fallas are “planted” in the
streets and squares of Valencia.The next day, the Junta Central Fallera
Organising Committee visits all the monuments and chooses the best in
each category.Every year the Fallas in the Special Category – those
with the biggest budgets – compete for the prestigious first prize,
which recognises their originality,beauty and technical difficulty.
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In the Region of Valencia we are celebrating, Light, colour and
fire, fire among all will flow for a couple of days, the streets and
squares of villages and cities. Form this friendly land, we invite you
to meet and live the Fallas in Valencia, the most
internationally know festivity.For five days, fireworks, mascletaes and
monuments are the protagonists of different cities, where the smell of
gunpowder blends with the finest flower scents, sound of music of the
bands and the masclets. A whole transformation that precedes the Spring
season. On March 19th, everything starts and everything ends because
with the last ashes, the dream of the Fallas of the upcoming year begins
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