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Valencia is known in all the country for its rollicking festivals
and for its spectacular fireworks, which have developed in this city
to an art of its own. Here they spend a whole year building a pyrotechnical
work of art, which then will burn down in one single night. This also
shows the character of the population to really enjoy the moment and
celebrate each festival as if it were the last one.
Most important is certainly the Fallas de San
Jose, a celebration of the beginning of springtime. In all
the town you will see impressive cardboard-constructions which will
be burned at the last day of the festival, March 19th, after a great
party in the streets and locals of Valencia that takes four days.
But the spectacle goes on during an entire week more, with dances
in those beautiful regional dresses, bullfights and fireworks.
For Feria de Julio (in July) all Valencia
is decorated with a sea of flowers. Again there are dancing parties,
fireworks and some of the most important bullfights of Spain.
At October 9th, the Day of Comunidad Valenciana,
there are commemorations of the reconquest of the town from the Moors.
Another typical festival is the "Fiesta
de la Mocaora", an event in particular beloved by gourmets:
especially for it are prepared those traditional specialties of marzipan,
Piuletes and Tronadors. |
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