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    Let it burn! Millions celebrate traditional Las Fallas festival in Valencia04:18

    Let it burn! Millions celebrate traditional Las Fallas festival in Valencia

    Spain, Valencia
    SocietyLight news
    March 20, 2023 at 23:20 GMT +00:00 · Published

    Millions of people celebrated this year’s Las Fallas festival in Valencia, as seen in footage filmed on Sunday.

    Footage shows people gathered in the city centre admiring giant papier-mache figures, which were burned during a firework spectacle at the end of the event.

    “The origin of the fallas is always reflected in the monuments, in what has happened during the year in society and in politics, always in a tone of criticism and satire,” explained one of the locals.

    “It is always burned to purify everything that has happened during the welcome of spring and to try to burn everything that has gone bad," she added.

    According to local media, over a million people celebrated this year’s festival, which started on March 15 and finished on Sunday.

    The Fallas celebrations, is a traditional Valencian spring festival that takes places every year. The highlight of the festival is the 'Cremà', meaning the burning of the 'Fallas' on the last day of festivities.

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    Millions of people celebrated this year’s Las Fallas festival in Valencia, as seen in footage filmed on Sunday.

    Footage shows people gathered in the city centre admiring giant papier-mache figures, which were burned during a firework spectacle at the end of the event.

    “The origin of the fallas is always reflected in the monuments, in what has happened during the year in society and in politics, always in a tone of criticism and satire,” explained one of the locals.

    “It is always burned to purify everything that has happened during the welcome of spring and to try to burn everything that has gone bad," she added.

    According to local media, over a million people celebrated this year’s festival, which started on March 15 and finished on Sunday.

    The Fallas celebrations, is a traditional Valencian spring festival that takes places every year. The highlight of the festival is the 'Cremà', meaning the burning of the 'Fallas' on the last day of festivities.