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	About Valencia .com: Las Fallas
		Las Fallas is undoubtedly one of the most unique and crazy festivals in Spain (a country known for unique and crazy festivals).
		Las Fallas literally means "the fires" in Valencian (a twisted provincial language somewhere between Spanish and Catalan).
		The origin of Las Fallas is a bit murky, but most credit the fires as an evolution of pagan rituals that celebrated the onset of spring and the planting season.
	www.aboutvalencia.com /valencia/fallas.asp (609 words)

	Las Fallas - Spanish Culture
		Las Fallas is one of the most outrageous festivals in Spain.
		Las Fallas is the Fiesta for San Jose and celebrates the coming of the Spring and the new beginnings that it brings.
		The Crema is the culmination of the Fallas.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art29605.asp (772 words)

	LAS FALLAS IN CYBERSPAIN
		The Fallas, from 13th to 19th of March, are creations of paper mache, wood and wax, which the Valencians, divided into different groups according to quarters or barrios and even streets, build in the streets and burn on the night of the feast of St. Joseph.
		By this time, the protagonist of the Falla festival were the fire and the effigies, as well as the entire town formed part this splendid spectacle.
		The Crema is the culmination of the Fallas.
	www.cyberspain.com /life/fallas.htm (1289 words)

	Valencia / Las Fallas
		Las fallas son grandes esculturas hechas de papel y cartón sobre una armazón de madera.
		La tradición dice que el origen de las fallas proviene de la costumbre que tenían los carpinteros de apilar maderas, trastos viejos y sobras inservibles de su trabajo para quemarlos al terminar el invierno en honor a su patrón, San José.
		Las fallas se han convertido en una atracción turística importante dentro del folclor español tanto para españoles como para extranjeros.
	www.middlebury.edu /academics/sa/spain/student_life/valencia.htm?WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublishedstu29 (493 words)

	The Fiestas of Spain: Las Fallas, Valencia.
		Las Fallas is undoubtedly one of the most unique and crazy festivals in Spain (a country known for unique and crazy festivals).
		Las Fallas literally means "the fires" in Valencian (a twisted provincial language somewhere between Spanish and Catalan).
		The origin of Las Fallas is a bit murky, but most credit the fires as an evolution of pagan rituals that celebrated the onset of spring and the planting season.
	www.spanishunlimited.com /spain/fiestas/lasfallas.asp (590 words)

	Las Fallas
		Las Fallas is celebrated each year beginning the first Sunday of March to commemorate St. Joseph's Day, the Patron Saint of Carpenters.
		To make the festival truly confusing to foreigners they name the week long celebration Las Fallas, the floats or giant figures Fallas, the social clubs or committees that raise the money to build the floats Fallas and the young woman who represents the city during the festival is the Fallera Mayor.
		Las Fallas is celebrated each year beginning the first Sunday of March to commemorate St. Joseph's Day, the Patron Saint of Carpenters, in the Spanish city of Valencia.
	www.2camels.com /las-fallas.php (1805 words)

	Fallas - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Las fallas suelen tener varios metros de altura (las más grandes llegan a los 25 o 30 metros) y están compuestas de numerosas figuras de cartón piedra sostenidas por un armazón de madera.
		En primer lugar, en torno a las diez de la noche, se procede a la quema del monumento infantil a excepción de la "falla" ganadora del primer premio de la sección especial que se quema a las diez y media.
		La creación de la falla fue evolucionando hasta la actualidad, donde los más grandes monumentos están compuestos de polietileno expandido (poliexpán), corcho blando fácilmente moldeable con sierras de calor.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fallas (1871 words)

	Fotos de las fallas de Valencia. Historia de las fallas.
		A los pies de las figuras (llamadas "ninots" en valenciano), se colocan hojas con versos que explican lo que se escenifica en la falla.
		Las 700 fallas que se plantan durante las fiestas, sólo se exhiben durante 4 días.
		A las 00:00 horas, se queman todas las fallas mayores, excepto la ganadora del primer premio, que se quema a las 00:30, y la falla del ayuntamiento, que se quema a la 01:00.
	www.fotosok.com /valencia/fotos_fallasvalencia.htm (571 words)

	Pilot Guides.com: Festive Pyre: Las Fallas Festival
		Las Fallas is a boisterous seven-day festival in the province of Valencia, Spain that culminates on 19 March every year, on the feast day of San Jose.
		Figures of historical and contemporary politicians and actors are commonly depicted in the fallas and the artists often make use of the opportunity to depict a point of view, in a humorous and almost child-like fashion.
		The Las Fallas is truly a festival for the senses, and it guarantees to leave you with a incessant ringing in your ears and a smile of your face.
	www.pilotguides.com /destination_guide/europe/spain/las_fallas.php (352 words)

	Las fallas del Sur de California - Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country
		Las fallas que son angulares a la superficie de la tierra son mostradas con listones de colores más anchos.
		La falla más cercana a usted puede estar unas cuantas millas debajo de su hogar.
		La mayor concentración de estas fallas es a lo largo y cerca de las montañas que se han formado alrededor del gran recodo de la falla de San Andrés (las montañas de San Bernardino, San Gabriel y Santa Ynez).
	www.earthquakecountry.info /roots-es/socal-faults.html (980 words)

	LAS FALLAS
		The Fallas are enormous models made out of papier mache, wood and wax, and often characaturing Spanish social and political current affairs.
		The Fallas are lit on the night of St. Joseph, 19th March.
		The last ones to be burnt are the fallas which have won prizes for the best ones (there are several categories under which fallas compete).
	www.euroresidentes.com /Fiestas/fallas.htm (364 words)

	ABC.es Hemeroteca: ardieron las fallas mas multitudinarias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Con la festividad de San José y la tradicional «Cremà» de los 760 monumentos falleros repartidos por toda la ciudad de Valencia y su área metropolitana, las Fallas 2006, las más multitudinarias que se recuerdan, tocaron ayer a su fin.
		Por la noche, después de una jornada agotadora, tuvieron ánimo para asistir, fuera de la agenda oficial, a la «plantà» de la falla del ayuntamiento.
		La actualidad es siempre la gran protagonista de las fallas, que este año han concedido especial atención a las refriegas estatutarias, la ley Antitabaco, el «botellón», la especulación urbanística y la Copa América 2007.
	www.abc.es /hemeroteca/historico-20-03-2006/Home/ardieron-las-fallas-mas-multitudinarias_142807857314.html (669 words)

	Las Fallas
		Valencia, overflows with gaiety, energy and fireworks during the celebration of its Major Festival: the Fallas From 13 to 19 March, this regional capital on the river Turia celebrates in tremendous style, one of the best known and emblematic festivals of Spain, as well-known as the San Fermin festival in Pamplona.
		The Fallas are creations of papier-mâché, wood and wax, which the townsfolk of Valencia build in the streets and burn on the night of the feast of St. Joseph.
		The last effigies to be devoured by the flames are those Fallas that have been awarded prizes by the General Fallas Committee and those in the City Hall square.
	www.ctspanish.com /festivals/lasfallas.htm (747 words)

	History of Las Fallas - Valencia Fallas 2007 - Valencia
		The falla did not only contain a scene set against a background but content was expressed in the whole of the sculpture and had to be deciphered by walking all round the falla looking at it from top to bottom.
		The children’s fallas are burnt at ten in the evening, with the exception of the first prize in the children’s category, which is set alight at ten thirty, and the city council children’s falla, which goes up in flames at eleven.
		The fallas grew in complexity to become enormous monuments, and an entire industry was born under the auspices of the Guild of Fallas Artists.
	www.valenciatrader.com /valencia/valencialasfallas2006/historyfallas (3534 words)

	The Fiestas of Spain : Las Fallas , Valencia
		The Fiestas of Spain : Las Fallas, Valencia
		Las Fallas literally means "the fires" in Valencian.
		Las Fallas of Valencia takes place on March 12th till 19th.
	www.donquijote.org /culture/spain/fiestas/lasfallas.asp (584 words)

	Mad, bad and dangerous to go: Las Fallas, Life in Spain, Spain, Expatica
		But now I have been to Las Fallas, Valencia's surreal celebration in honour of St Joseph, I feel I have fulfilled that ambition, in a peculiar way.
		A falla is a large set-piece on a given theme, and usually includes an eye-catching central feature with little scenes around it peopled by humorous figures called ninots.
		Las Fallas is Spain at its vivid best; bright, deafening, gaudy at times, but irresistible.
	www.expatica.com /actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=83&story_id=18236 (954 words)

	Festivals and Fiestas in La Safor, Valencia - Las Fallas
		Fallas are creations of papier mache, wood and wax, which the townsfolk of Valencia build in the streets and burn on the night of the feast of St. Joseph.
		The protagonist of the Falla festival were now not only the fire and the effigies, but the entire town formed part this splendid spectacle.
		The last effigies to be devoured by the flames are those Fallas that have been awarded prizes by the Genrakl Fallas Committee and those in the City Hall square.
	www.practicalspain.com /Fallas.htm (1225 words)

	La Vida Loca: Living and Learning in Madrid: Las Fallas of Valencia
		The Spanish city of Valencia is known for its fruit and Fallas.
		There are fallas (ninots) in almost every plaza in the city, surrounded by food vendors, games and activities for kids, and people eating drinking and taking pictures.
		Well, at least officially, the majority of the crowd heading to cafes and restaurants, many people began to set off their own explosions, and we set out to find the bus, which was scheduled to depart as 2:30 a.m.
	www.readingeagle.com /blog/madrid/archives/2006/03/las_fallas_of_v.html (1061 words)

	Las Fallas fiestas in Valencia
		Las Fallas take place from the 15th-19th of March (St Joseph’s day) in Valencia and in many other towns of the region, such as Alzira, Cullera, Gandía, Sagunto, Játiva.
		However most locals believe that the Fallas were born in the 16th century when the carpenters collective would set fire in spring to all their left-over materials.
		Once all the Fallas are in place, the city gets ready for its biggest event of the year and the arrival of thousands of tourists who come to see it.
	www.coloursofspain.com /travelguidedetail/24/valencia/fiestas_las_fallas (1770 words)

	Las Fallas fiestas in Valencia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Las Fallas take place from the 15th-19th of March (St Joseph’s day) in Valencia and in many other towns of the region, such as Alzira, Cullera, Gandía, Sagunto, Játiva.
		However most locals believe that the Fallas were born in the 16th century when the carpenters collective would set fire in spring to all their left-over materials.
		Once all the Fallas are in place, the city gets ready for its biggest event of the year and the arrival of thousands of tourists who come to see it.
	coloursofspain.com /travelguidedetail/24/valencia/fiestas_las_fallas (1770 words)

	The American Fireworks News archive of articles: Las Falas story
		"Falla" means bonfire, and the practice of ceremonial bonfires in Valencia is centuries old.
		A falla is a structure made of white cork sculptured around a light wood frame.
		The construction of a falla takes most of the year and costs between $10,000 and $30,000, depending on the financial capabilities of the neighborhood community that contracts it.
	www.98.net /afn/lasfalas.htm (885 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Las Fallas
		Las Fallas today is made up of three principle elements.
		These large fallas are invariably accompanied by smaller, separate displays put together by the children from each locality.
		Las Fallas is the very definition of organized chaos.
	www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A474527 (1230 words)

	Las Fallas
		You won't be able to keep a smile off your face admiring the masterfully-created, colorful fallas depicting celebrities, politicians, and current events of the past year in an ever-satirical manner.
		While awards and prizes identify the best fallas and their creators, these crafty individuals tirelessly work for months fully aware that the fruits of their talents and labors will meet their end as piles of discarded ash.
		Finally, the 18th century saw the next significant point on the timeline of Las Fallas, as groups of characters began appearing together to depict satirical and critical themes.
	www.enforex.com /culture/fallas.html (489 words)

	Valencia spain Las Fallas
		The Fallas were born out of the very heart of the people, of a life under blue skies and sunshine, of quiet romantic nights spent in gardens, of a simple and modest lifestyle.
		This fire is a fiesta, the joyous and overwhelming exaltation of all the other celebrations that precede it during the week of festivities that is known as the Semana Fallera (Fallas Week)..
		On the 19th, at midnight, all the Fallas are burnt except for the prizewinning ninot (small Falla).
	www.carspain.com /valencia/information/valencia_las_fallas.asp (518 words)

	Las Fallas in Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By the late 1920s the first official ‘Semana de las Fallas' (Fallas Week), was born, in which the first official ‘ninots' (effigies) were built and erected in the streets and displayed for all to enjoy.
		It is in these clubs that the ‘la Reina de Fallas' (Queen of the Fallas) and ‘la Reina de Foc' (Queen of Fire) are nominated and chosen to lead the Fallas week.
		The Fallas club where we live were due to light their ninot at midnight on the Friday.
	www.spain-uk-united.com /Sections/Information/LasFallas.asp (1375 words)

	Top Annual Events in Spain by Europe-Cities - Las Fallas
		There is evidence that the Fallas emerged as a pagan festivity related to the spring equinox.
		The irony expressed by the fallas refers to a condemnable social action, manifesting a social justice of sorts.
		The Fallas provoked negativism on the part of city authorities, who strove to eradicate the festivity with all the powers they possessed.
	spain.europe-cities.com /sightseeing/las_fallas.aspx (723 words)

	Las Fallas Festival in Valenica
		First, there is the “plantan” about 4 days prior, where the Fallas / Ninots are mounted for display in all the plazas (squares) of the city, where everyone can view them and decide which one they like the best.
		On March 18, is the “Ofrenda de Flores” where all the comparsas parade, laden with flowers, to the Cathedral, where they are deposited and a monument of flowers in made.
		That is the end of the “Fallas de Valencia” for the year.
	www.comtours.com /fallas.htm (500 words)

	Spain Annual Spring Events Guide
		Las Fallas are the floats or giant figures.
		Fallas are the social clubs or committees that raise the money to build the floats.
		The highlights come at midday, during the long cavalcade of riders, and late at night when the spirit takes over the thousand throats of the "cantaores" (flamenco singers) and the legs and arms of the "bailaoras" (dancers) with their four sevillanas.
	www.carnaval.com /spain/spring (2249 words)

	Las Fallas Valencia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Las Fallas Valencia is held every year from 15 - 19 March in the city of Valencia.
		La 'Mascleta' are firework displays which are held every day in Plaza del Ayuntamiento until the 19 March.
		Las Fallas Valencia wouldn't be complete without the gastronomic delights of the region.
	www.valencia-tourist-travel-guide.com /las-fallas-valencia.html (651 words)

	Valencia en fallas. Monumentos falleros seccion especial fotos fallas 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
		Los rumores sobre las fallas de 2006 ya han empezado.
		La falla del pilar ya ha contratado a sus artistas para el ejercicio de 2006.
		La falla grande la hará Pere Baenas y la infantil Julio Sergio Monterrubio.
	fallas.empresawww.net (212 words)

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