Puppet Festival "Las Fallas"

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Las Fallas - this is one of the biggest, loudest, brightest and longest running festivals in the Spanish calendar. The holiday is over 500 years, and still he is very popular. In good weather, which is typical of an old Mediterranean city of Valencia, Las Fallas festival gathers up to 2 million tourists from around the world, joined by about 150 thousand local residents. The city at this time just stops, many streets are closed to motorists on the old streets begin mass festivities and fun.

Las Fallas means - means torch or flame.  This is a traditional Spanish holiday, during which residents set fire to the specially made ​​large doll. Although officially the festival lasts five days, however, he begins each year on March 1, when residents every day fireworks.

Fireworks are held daily at the Town Hall Square, where at two o'clock in the night explodes about 120 kg of gunpowder, and then ignited Fallas (a huge doll made ​​of papier-mache, which serves as a torch). During this action one can see many women dressed in national costumes, and offering flowers to tourists.