Valencia celebrates fire festival Paper mache figures are burned during the Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, Monday, March 19, 2012. Ev...
Valencia celebrates fire festival
Paper mache figures are burned during the Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, Monday, March 19, 2012. Every year the city of Valencia celebrates the ancient "Las Fallas" fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph which climaxes in the burning of large paper mache figures displayed around the streets of the city. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Paper mache figures are burned during the Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, Monday, March 19, 2012. Every year the city of Valencia celebrates the ancient "Las Fallas" fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph which climaxes in the burning of large paper mache figures displayed around the streets of the city. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Paper mache figures are burned during the Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, Monday, March 19, 2012. Every year the city of Valencia celebrates the ancient "Las Fallas" fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph which climaxes in the burning of large paper mache figures displayed around the streets of the city. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Paper mache figures are burned during the Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, Monday, March 19, 2012. Every year the city of Valencia celebrates the ancient "Las Fallas" fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph which climaxes in the burning of large paper mache figures displayed around the streets of the city. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
The "Fallas" festival in Valencia, Spain welcomes spring and honored Saint Joseph's Day on March 19 with the burning of giant elaborate sculptures and effigies of wood and plastic.
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