Las Fallas - Saturday

The city center was full of people during the final day. There were macletas and bullfights. It was the last chance for the tourists to see the best fallas around town. The last night of Fallas was a much more peaceful one than the others. Ten o'clock they started burning the fallas infantiles (small playful statues for the kids). At midnight all the other fallas were burned down accompanied by ten minutes of fireworks.

I saw the burning (la cremà) of one of the bigger fallas near my neighbourhood. The scene was surrounded by firemen who gave the impression that they had worked there many times before. Trees and walls near the flames were kept cool with water. Still some curtains got burned and fell down on the other side of the street. As the papermass in the statue began to catch fire the temperature got really high. It suprised even the firemen and they had to move the fences ten meters back. I think everybody there got what they were waiting for. Looking at the wooden frames burning red and collapsing we realized that the fallas was suddenly over. People then continued to bars and discos just like on any other saturday night.








Also, the funny rooster-falla on my street had been burned to ashes :(