Playing with fire.

In mid-March in Valencia, there is a state of emergency: With sumptuous costumes, paella contests and a lot of fireworks to welcome the Spaniards this spring. On the closing day of the festival seems to be the entire city to stand up in flames.

 

Valencia - Spring Festivals in Spain there are many. But nowhere is it louder, more colorful and fiery than in the Fallas in Valencia. For five days transforms the Mediterranean city in mid-March in a solid mile. Attract Valencianos pride in splendid costumes through the streets. Paella cooking competitions on the open road, traditional folk dances, festive parades, fireworks, bullfights and the Fallas, giant sculptures of cardboard across the city, attract hundreds of thousands of tourists. Last year 1.2 million people came to Valencia - a city in a state of emergency.

Beatriz Gómez-Lechón Verdia has long waited for this moment. The 16-year-old fieberte the whole year against the Fallas. It should be "their" fallas are. Falla your club, she had to "Fallera Mayor determined. Every district or neighborhood each major Falla is a community aimed at a road crossing a marquee organized, at its own expense, one of the giant-Falla monuments can be built and as representatives of the Festival Society, a woman (Fallera Mayor) and a girl (Fallera Infantil) certain.

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AP, DDP, Antje Blinda