So after my recon trip to Valencia where I visited the museums and cathedral, I returned the following weekend to see the end of the Fallas festival. Fallas is an annual festival that consists of large sculptures made of wood, cork, and styrofoam. They are all made by different artists, in various sizes, small, medium, and gargantuan. During the week they are displayed and judged, and then on Saturday, after the sun sets, they burn them. Yep, burn them. Now i know what you're thinking- that all seems incredibly silly- why would those spaniards work so hard to build these elaborate sculptures just to burn them? And trust me, I've had a good amount of time to think about an answer for this, and you know, the best I can come up with is that spaniards just like to burn stuff. Which I must admit, makes for quite the spectacle.
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| This one is actually from the previous weekend when they were constructing one of the fallas |
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| One of the small Fallas |
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| This is NOT a falla, but is the virgen made out of tons of flowers |
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| All of the Fallas deal with current issues and are usually charicatures of things happening in Spain. This one however was about sex and viloence (mostly sex) in the media |
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| This was my favorite Falla- i'm a sucker for the octopi so it was a winner in my book |
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| it's likely that part of the reason I loved this falla so much was because it had an enormous paella being cooked right by it during the day, which made for an awesome meal that day- during which i tried my first snail- not too shabby |
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| and then it got burned |
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| and then it REALLY got burned |
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