Hello everyone!
Weekends are a time to enjoy, disconnect, rest and have a good time. There are many ways and it depends on many circumstances but this weekend around here everything is special, very lively, vibrant, colorful and noisy, they are the festival of the region, the Fallas of Valencia (in Spain). And today my post in #WeekendExperiences, the community hosted by @galenkp (sorry I made a mistake with your name this time😅), is special.
And we have been hearing thunderous firecrackers and "mascletàs" (firecracker concerts) all week, also fireworks, paellas in the street and in the street we run into or rather we are finding and visiting the different "fallas" that each neighborhood places.
Fallas are those great monuments full of art and color, also satire and social irony, and which represent many things, many different messages and all of this has a purpose: renewal.
The renewal in spring time, in times of beginnings when everything acquires more life. The old is left behind, and here it burns.
And these monuments will be burned during the night of the Cremà on the 19th, tomorrow Sunday, everything will have been reduced to ashes and while “carpe diem”, we enjoy the moment because “tempus fugit”, the days are gone, and also the weekends.
And so I take advantage of these days, and also today Saturday and tomorrow, a truly unique weekend experience. I visit the Fallas, but this time I discover the ones that are not in the capital of Valencia, in the big city, but in the surrounding towns, and some are also beautiful and inspiring.
Some fallas like this one can surprise us because, in addition to having a fantastic and precious theme, the children's falla (there are large versions and others for children) is curious and also turns and turns, so that everything acquires more magic. But the big one is my favorite (Falla Plaza de Rodrigo in Sagunto Port), an exquisite theme and turning around we discover more characters and more cute and lovely details. Work of urban art par excellence.
The magic is around here, because there is also an open-air art museum! Actually recycling museum, because in the street they have created an original museum, "the Rodrigo Museum" with colorful artistic works, many made with plastic bottle caps, and they even seem to be some impressionist works that must be seen by taking a certain distance to appreciate the painting because up close we see the many bottle caps, but they are all incredible works with the right perspective. Wonderful!
In addition to these original and colorful work of recycling art, there are also other handicrafts, made with brushes, or with more bottle caps... a piece of watermelon!
And we continue to see more fallas, in different streets we discover more sculptures made of wood and cork painted in beautiful shades, each one with style, with its theme and message. Because the messages can be read while we turn around. All the streets actually become an open air museum, not just the museum itself, the whole region breathes color, vitality and fun.
Days of festivities, of pennants hanging in the wind, of happy music, of eating and drinking in the street under the warm sun that heralds spring. Days of lots of noise, color, smiles and fun. Fallas are an unique experience.
Extra: Then we return to Valencia, to the big city because we know what the winning falla has been, and immediately thousands of people crowd to see it, it is difficult to get close to such a crowd but we managed to see the impressive winner: Falla Micer Mascó.
Happy Weekend and Happy Fallas
Thanks for reading! Have a festive and happy day.
