Las Fallas

The failures start on the last Sunday in February, with the proclamation starting at Serranos Towers, This proclamation is known as the crida, all the falleros and falleras (and valencianos and valencianas!) get together to start the festivities with an afternoon full of joy.

From this moment on, the palpable Fallas events begin, mascletás at noon, mascletás night parades, parades, marching bands, parade of the ninot... and in the week of 15 to 19 February is the peak of the Fallas festivities.

On the evening of 15 March, the plantá of all adult failures.

In Valencia there are more than 350 casales falleros, and each casal plants 2 fallas, one for children and one for the adult commission, both (and all of them, more than 700) will be burnt on the night of the 19th March, the day of Saint Joseph, patron saint of carpenters.

The festivities as such began to take shape in 1920, but the tradition of burning a bonfire dates back much earlier.

In the 17th century, the carpenters' workshops took out the old junk that was no longer useful and set fire to it, a way of letting go of the past to start a new year.

If you want to know more about it, know all the events that take place in this period, the meanings of each thing, don't miss our Fallas Tour, We will also enter through a fault line.

Calendar of Fallas events

FRIDAY 15 MARCH

• 09:00 Plantá of all the children's fallas
• 14:00 Mascletá Town Hall Square (Zarzoso pyrotechnics)
• 17:00 Closing of the Ninot Exhibition
• 17:30 Reading of the popular verdict and proclamation of the 2019 ‘Ninot Indultat’.
• 17:45 Pick up of the ninots indultats (uncultivated bulls)
• 00:00 Pyrotechnic show at night (mascletá at night in the Town Hall Square).

SATURDAY 16 MARCH

• 08:00 La Plantá de todas las fallas (The plantá of all the fallas)
• 14:00 Mascletá Town Hall Square by Pyrotechnics Caballer
• 16:30 Prize distribution in the grandstand of the Town Hall Square
• During the afternoon, the awards of the fallas will be read out. Those of the special section will be announced from 21:00 hours.
• 00:00 Fireworks in the Paseo de la Alameda (old Turia river bed)

SUNDAY 17 MARCH

09:00 Distribution of the prizes won by the fallas. By sections.

14:00 Mascletá in Town Hall Square

15:30 start of the offering of flowers to the Virgen María de los Desamparados.

SAN VICENTE STREET

• 15:30 h.: Quart de Poblet - Xirivella
• 17:00 h.: Jesus
• 18:15 h.: Mislata
• 19:30 h.: Creu Coberta
• 20:45 h.: Pilar - Sant Francesc
• 21:45 h.: Patraix
• 23:00 h.: La Seu - El Mercat
• 23:30 h.: Botanic - La Petxina
• 00:30 h.: Regional Houses
• 00:40 h.: Local meetings
• 00:50 h.: Falla José Mª Bayarri - Los Isidros
• 00:55 h.: Fallera mayor infantil de València and Court of Honour

PEACE STREET

• 15:30 h.: Camins al Grau
• 17:15 h.: Russafa A
• 18:15 h.: Russafa B
• 19:00 h.: Pla del Reial - Benimaclet
• 20:45 h.: Canyamelar - Grao - Nazaret
• 21:45 h.: La Xerea
• 22:15 h.: Rascanya

01:00 h. Fireworks display in the Alameda promenade.

MONDAY 18 MARCH

10:30 a.m. Tribute to the poet Maximilià Thous, at the crossroads of the streets of Sagunto and Maximilà Thous.

12:00 Tribute to Maestro Serrano, Avenida Reino de Valencia

14:00 Mascleta (Valencian Pyrotechnics)

15:30 the offering of flowers continues

SAN VICENTE STREET

• 15:30 h.: Benicalap
• 16:45 h.: Campanar
• 17:45 h.: La Roqueta - Arrancapins
• 19:15 h.: Olivereta
• 21:00 h.: La Saïdia
• 22:30 h.: El Carme
• 23:15 h.: Regional Houses and invited organisations
• 00:45 h.: Falla Barrio de San José
• 00:55 h.: Fallera mayor de València and court of honour

PEACE STREET

• 15:30 h.: Quatre Carreres
• 17:00 h.: Pla del Remei - Gran Via
• 18:15 h.: Benimamet- Burjassot - Beniferri
• 20:00 h.: Malvarrosa - Cabanyal - Beteró
• 21:15 h.: Algiros
• 22:15 h.: Poblats Al Sud

01:30 Nit de Foc at the Paseo de la Alameda, in the old Turia riverbed- (Ricasa Pyrotechnics - Ricardo Caballer)

SUNDAY 17 MARCH

Last day of the fallas and the nit de la cremà (burning night)

• 11:00. On the bridge of San José, the Falleras Mayores de Valencia and their Cortes de Honor will make an offering of flowers before the image of the patriarch with the special collaboration of the Falla Doctor Olóriz-Arzobispo Fabián y Fuero. At the end of the act, mascletà.
• 12:00. Mass in honour of Saint Joseph in the Seu de Valencia, officiated by the Archbishop of Valencia, Monsignor Antonio Cañizares, offered by Junta Central Fallera and the Guild of Carpenters, with the attendance of the Falleras Mayores de Valencia and their Courts of Honour.
• 14:00 Last mascletá in the Town Hall Square by the famous Ricardo Caballer.
• 19:00 Bonfire Parade along Calle Colón, from Calle Ruzafa to Plaza de la Puerta de la Mar.
• 22:00 cremá of the children's fallas.
• 22:30 cremá of the children's falla that has won first prize.
• 23:00 cremá of the children's falla of the town hall.
• 00:00 cremá of all the fallas-.
• 00:30 cremà of the falla that has won the first prize in the special section
• 01:00 Aerial fireworks in the Town Hall Square and cremà of the municipal failure.