Five months after deadly floods ravaged Valencia, the Spanish city is hosting its biggest celebration of the year.

Today, Las Fallas stands as one of Spain ... The festival honours Saint Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters, and ...

Every August, the streets of Bunol, a small town near Valencia, turn into a battlefield of flying tomatoes. Thousands of ...

burning many characters and large papier mache satirical figures displayed around the streets of the city. Only the sculpture which is voted best escapes the flames. Spain's Las Fallas festival ...

Spain, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Five months after deadly floods ravaged Valencia, the Spanish city is hosting its biggest celebration of the year: Las Fallas. Sculptures were built using ...

VALENCIA, Spain ... Las Fallas to its catalog of intangible cultural heritage in 2016, describes the incineration of the sculptures as “a form of purification" and "social renewal.” The ...

The artwork is one of hundreds of wood and papier-mache sculptures ... Las Fallas, the most important yearly celebration in Valencia, reaches its climax on Wednesday. This year’s festival has taken on ...

Assistants take photos at a figure of the Virgin decorated with a floral mantle, in honor of those who died during the past floods, during the Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday ...

VALENCIA, Spain (AP ... one of hundreds of wood and papier-maché sculptures that are painstakingly crafted — and then burned — when Las Fallas, the most important yearly celebration ...