Valencia, Spain – The United States has its fireworks on the Fourth of July. Valencia has the mascletàs of Las Fallas. “It is a beautiful noise!” said an onlooker, expectantly waiting for the show to ...

VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Fireworks and the burning of colorful puppet-like sculptures wrapped up Valencia's Fallas festival on Sunday night after nearly week-long festivities in the Spanish ...

Sculptures are displayed in Valencia’s streets and then burned on the last day of the Fallas festival in a centuries-old tradition – Copyright AFP JOSE JORDAN ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The festival began as a celebration of St. Joseph, as Euro News reported, who is the patron saint of carpenters, and has now ...

I heard that Las Fallas in Valencia has become one of the world’s most spectacular festivals and needed to find out for myself. I was there back in '93 on a student trip, but only had a few days and ...