Fallas to enjoy everything

Las Fallas is Valencia’s big festival: light, fire, pyrotechnics…joy.

The word fault comes from the Latin facula, meaning “torch”.This makes perfect sense if we relate it to one of the versions that places its origin with the ancient tradition of carpenters who, on the eve of the feast of their patron saint, St. Joseph, burned their old junk in front of their workshops, in the street, to celebrate the end of winter.

As we said, this is one of the versions of the origin of the Fallas. But there is more. In this interesting article from
National Geographic
you can discover a few of them.

But above and beyond their origin, the most important thing about the Fallas is how they are lived. The fallas are a party of light, of people celebrating and music in the streets, of firecrackers, of churros, of tents that invade the streets, of falleras and falleros in the offering adorning the virgin with beautiful flowers, of skies of colored lights… It is a party of being in the street, of visiting the fallas. But they can also be days of rest.