Las Fallas: Valencia Builds Giants for a Year, Then Burns Them in a Night

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Somewhere in Valencia right now, a workshop the size of an aircraft hangar holds a thirty-foot cartoon politician with the head of a pig, and the people who built him already know the exact hour they are going to set him on fire. That is the deal. That is the whole engine of Las Fallas, and once you understand it the festival stops looking like a party and starts looking like something closer to a religion with better pyrotechnics.

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Las Fallas: Valencia Builds Giants for a Year, Then Burns Them in a Night