Instagramのインスタグラム(instagram) - 3月19日 22時47分

Each year, the city of Valencia, Spain, celebrates the beginning of spring with one of its biggest festivals: Las Fallas. Throughout March every day at 2:00PM the mascletà takes place where firecrackers are set off in Plaça de l'Ajuntament. Tapas, drinking and fiestas throughout the city follow into the evening. The Las Fallas festival originated as the burning of parots—overhanging structures used to give light that were no longer needed as the days grew longer in springtime. Nowadays, neighborhoods decorate their streets with lights and create their fallas—giant polystyrene handmade figures from popular culture that are paraded on floats down the city's streets. Often grotesque and satirical, these artistic monuments take months to create and later become huge bonfires across the city. The festival culminates in an impressive firework display called Nit del Foc, or "Night of Fire." "The spring light changes every single corner of the city. These are the days to walk the streets, to go out and see the monuments, the light decorations, days to hang out with friends, to go to the mascletà everyday in the city center, to watch the fireworks at night by the river Turia at Paseo de la Alameda," says Valencia Instagrammer Jose (@ayjoselitoo). "Thousands of tourists visit Valencia in these magical days. Valencia welcomes spring and every single tourist and local with its shiny sun, its lovely blue sky and the smell of azahar flowers (orange blossoms) in the streets." To view more photos and videos from Las Fallas, tap the blue location text above and browse the #fallas, #lasfallas and #valenciagram_fallas2014 hashtags.

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