Fallas de Valencia

WHERE: Valencia, Spain
WHEN: from 15 to 19 March 2024

The Fallas de Valencia are the most incredible and spectacular festival that combines, to perfection, satire, tradition, art and feeling for their land. In March, you will experience a truly unique experience in a truly incredible atmosphere. Tradition becomes art, and all of Valencia is an open-air museum; a riot of lights, colors and sounds.

Between music, fireworks, and fashion shows in traditional clothes, you can admire the beautiful Fallas de Valencia. These are real artistic monuments, consisting of wooden structures, covered with spectacular, and colorful, papier-mâché figures. The colossal creatures are made by artists and artisans throughout the year; in general, they are inspired by current figures and compositions of the whole Region.

Every year, the festival attracts thousands of visitors. From the 2016, UNESCO has included the Fallas de Valencia, in the intangible heritage of humanity!

Attending this extraordinary event, offers the opportunity to appreciate, more, the beauties of the city, and the character and friendliness of the Valencian people. A party that invites everyone to participate, burning everything that is negative, to be reborn from its own ashes. In this way, we welcome a new season of the year.

The party is particularly loved by the locals. It is no coincidence, in fact, that the preparations take place many months before March. The Fallas de Valencia officially take place from the 01 to 19 March. The culmination of the festivities, however, is during the Fallera Week and, in particular, during the last 4 days.

The Fallas de Valencia are much more than a simple carnival parade. They are the very essence of a land full of charm and traditions. One of the absolutely unmissable events of the month.

PRACTICAL INFO

HOW TO GET

Valencia is well connected by air to many European and non-European destinations. From the airport, you can easily reach the center with the excellent underground network. Alternatively, you can arrive by train, car and even ship.

The city is served by an efficient public transport service, which allows you to reach every area of Valencia. Including the center, which you can easily walk around.

FALLAS DE VALENCIA 2024 PROGRAM AND TIMES

Here is the billboard of the main events of the Fallas de Valencia 2023.

THE CRIDA

Sunday 25 February 2024, at the Torres de Serranos, appointment with the Crida, that is the Call of the Fallas which announces the beginning of the celebrations. The Fallera Mayor, beauty queen, will set off the show of lights, colors and fireworks from the balcony of the town hall.

01 – 19 MARCH: MASCLET

Every day, at the 14:00 in point, at Plaça de l’Ajuntament, the long-awaited show of the Mascletà. Fantastic fireworks await you, with many rows of firecrackers creating a deafening effect. At the end, head towards the numerous bars in the area, for the traditional aperitif.

15 – 16 MARCH: PLANTÀ

In the night from 15 to 16 March the Plantà takes place, during which the falleros gather to work all night and build the monument (the flaw), which must be ready in the early hours of 16. The 17 March, at 09:00, the falleras appear in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento to receive the corresponding prize.

On 15, at 09:00, Plantà of Fallas infantiles. Awarding the best Fallas infantiles, the following day, at 16:30, at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.