Beauty Fire - Fallas of Valencia

Fallas is a traditional festival that has become a unique celebration in the world. Declared interest of humanity by UNESCO, have become very popular with tourists who flock here during the month of March in time to welcome the pleasant spring weather and take advantage of this extraordinary celebration that does not go unnoticed, rivaling or perhaps surpassed the famous "Tomatina" is held in the nearby town of Buñol beauty fire.

What are the failures?
Designed and created by renowned artists, painters, sculptors and architects, these artisans spend months designing and building the Fallas beauty fire, is not easy, as they can reach up to 30 meters high!

 Masterfully created colorful Fallas - made of paper mache and wood - are known celebrities beauty fire, politicians and the news of the last years of a famous satirical manner beauty fire.

Builders are given exactly one night to fully build their masterpieces. On the morning of March 16 public squares and open spaces Valencia suddenly become exhibition spaces for these incredible works of art beauty fire. Three days later - at midnight on the day of the feast of St. Joseph - The city literally glows.

The figures, which represents the work of a whole year hundreds of people are burned on the night of March 19 in huge flames, and every fire is a temple dedicated to this great festival of fire beauty fire.

The experts behind each of the hundreds of Fallas in Valencia seem - in the deafening applause of thousands - of the fruits of his talent and work burst into flames and finally come to an end as ashes are blown rejected by a gentle wind and put off by the fire nearby beauty fire.

Fallas of Valencia
Admire the Fallas few hours before being burned

The history of the Fallas
The origins of the festival are rather humble, but still not clear, as there is little documentary evidence beauty fire.

The most accepted of the three main theories is that the origin of the failures could have happened at the time of the medieval guilds that the first written evidence of the date of Valencia Fallas in mid 18th century and early 19th century beauty fire. On the night of the carpenters' guild of St. Joseph are used to light a fire in honor of the saint.

In this burned the mast position where they had kept their lights during the winter - the Estai - and dirt from the workshop. That over time, however, added mats and other pieces of old scrap. Custom to burn an effigy of the fire is a little later beauty fire.

Disputes between the various workshops aimed at creating grotesque figures representing the team, in order to make everyone laugh with them beauty fire.

These effigies were thrown into the fire with old pieces of junk. In the Middle Ages, artisans have left their objects and pieces of wood to burn to celebrate the spring equinox broken beauty fire.