Fallas figures target flood failures in annual Spanish festival

STORY: :: Giant figures people flood absorption failures astatine Valencia's yearly Fallas festival

:: March 16, 2025

:: Valencia, Spain

:: Maria Jesus Andres, Vice President, El Pilar Falla

“Fallas are astir disapproval and satire, but ever with respect. They people person to notation authorities and existent events, which is wherefore they critique everything we spot arsenic wrong, but with a satirical perspective.”

Tourists and locals visited the Fallas festival held each twelvemonth successful the Valencia portion wherever sculptures, immoderate of them satirical are scattered crossed the metropolis earlier being acceptable connected fire.

The elephantine figures, oregon "ninots", which is the Valencian connection for dolls, are often made from wood, plaster and insubstantial mache implicit galore months.

Valencia's determination person Carlos Mazon and Spain's premier curate Pedro Sanchez were among the figures featured astatine this year's event.

This year's festival has a cathartic aspect, coming aft rainfall and flash floods prompted rivers to overflow successful Valencia and different parts of Spain sidesplitting much than 200 radical and destroying homes and spot successful October 2024.

The victor of this twelvemonth was a Fallera, a traditionally dressed Valencian woman, and workers covered successful mud, referencing the interaction of the storm.