Live with us through the parties, in few places in the world they will feel so unforgettable emotions. And it is that the Valencian one wastes and lives through the present, it is probably one of few people in where the whole year can be worked elaborating the most impressive handcrafted monument to burn it in one night.

But in any case this explosion of color speaks about a deep-rooted sense of to live through the present with the bigger happiness, people of east, accustomed to improvise, that feasts as if of last day of their life.

Its more important party and that one that synthesizes everything the above mentioned thing and feasting Valencian is Las Fallas de San José.

For 4 days and four nights immense monuments of carton remain planted on numerous streets and squares, plastic and scandalous jeer dropped with so much art as naturalness. This is the way of receiving the spring beginning, with explosions and fire (that is what the word "fallas" means).

They say that the origin of party of las Fallas is situated in the craftsmen and, very specially, in the carpenters of Valencia.

During the winter, to take advantage of the last days of light, there were in use a few oil-lamps that were hung of an appliance named "parots", very similarly to a candelabra of several arms of trunks or tables of wood.

With the arrival of the good time, the eve of San Jose these devices were burned at the edge of the houses.

With the time to the parot old articles(garments,securities) and other objects were adding it to be hot, taking the form of an "espantapájaro". Every time it was acquiring more human features, representing some popular personage of the neighborhood.

This way there arose the "ninot" or doll, which would begin to turn out to be accompanied of other figures.

The tone satyr and burlesque of the Fallas complemented itself with the perfection of the same ones to plastic level, giving place to the artists falleros.

In this city riddled with musicians and with melomaniacs, the musical scales are mixed with the compositions that offer la despertá o la mascletá.

Aromas of gunpowder that intermingle with airs of buns or of paella.

The falleros grouped in the "casales" wait with devotion for the offering for the Virgin of the Helpless .

Under her, there spreads an enormous mantle of multicolored flowers that increase the color of the party.

The eve of March 19, with the cremá, Valencia turns into an authentic ball of fire. Real works of art in carton - stone burn of an end to other one of the city. The city of the Turia turns, for a few days, into the city of the fire.

Last day, that of San Jose, On March 19 they will burn them and impressive bonfires, reminiscence of an ancient and like that rite the city will burn for its four sides.

It there joins a great list of parties that for one week will take place in the city, as typical parades, where the beauty of the suits emphasizes feminine that are them more richly elaborated of Spain, dances, heavy meals, and the whole carnival with bullfughts and, like always, the extraordinary fireworks.

Other popular parties of interest are:

Julio's fair, with fantastic ostentations of pyrotechnics, battles of flowers and sports competitions and important bullfughts, especially that of July 25, which summons the most celebrated bullfighters of the moment.

On October 9, day of the Valencian Community, there is commemorated that of the city of Arabic hands by Jaime I. Celebrating Day of the "Mocaorá ", in which every girl will receive of her boyfriend or claimant a silk scarf (mocador) wrapping the typical sweets of marzipan in the shape of fruits and piuletes and tronadors.

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