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The people of Valencia celebrate their patron saint’s day and the passing of winter with a fiery party of ferocious proportions: ground-shaking fire-cracker fights, rockets booming overhead, billowing clouds of sulphurous smoke, and colossal bonfires on street corners that could cook your eyeballs from twenty metres. The main feature of Valencia’s famous festival is the fallas effigies themselves, which come in all shapes and sizes, the most spectacular of them being enormous affairs. Almost four hundred are erected around the city, and as many as four hundred more in the surrounding towns and districts. Combine all this with the Spanish love of sangria, bravado and all-hours partying, and you get one hell of an early spring line-up that draws two million people from all over the world.
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Where?
Valencia, Spain
When?
March 12–19
How Long?
7 days
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