So, I was actually in Valencia this past week for the craziest festival ever, called Fallas! It was a week filled with traditional costumes, kids with firecrackers all day long, amazing fireworks shows, huge figures and lights put up in the streets, huge crowds, and lots of street parties. It is very difficult to describe Fallas, I would suggest the link that my dad put as a comment on the last entry to give some basics. But it is kind of like a bunch of block parties. Each little neighborhood (there are over 300!) makes a big and a small ninot (big figures made of a styrofoam/papier-machet material) that criticize different aspects of society. Some are very obvious for me to understand, such as ones criticizing drunkards, but others were more political or harder to interpret.
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