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BENJAMIN CLAVAN
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"PAU" / "PEACE"
2024 Falla Municipal / Municipal Falla 2024
Plaça de l'Ajuntament / City Hall Plaza
Dissenyat per l'artista valencià Escif (que també és un conegut artista de carrer) i "materialitzat" per l'artista faller Pere Baenas
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Designed by the Valencian
artist Escif (who is also a well-known street artist) and "materialized" by the Fallero artist Pere Baenas
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Falles 2024
Falles (Valencian) / Fallas (Spanish) - pronounced "FI-es" / "FI-as"
A traditional celebration dating from the mid-18th century - originally and ostensibly in commemoration of Saint Joseph - held each year in Valencia during the first weeks of March. The term Falles refers to both the celebration and the monuments created during the celebration.
Each neighborhood of the city has an organized group of people, the Casal faller, that works all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners, usually featuring the famous dish, paella, a specialty of the region. Each casal faller produces a construction known as a falles.
On the final week of Falles, around midnight on March 19, all of the falles are burnt as huge bonfires. This is known as La Cremà (the Burning), the climax of the whole event, and the reason why the constructions are called falles ("torches").
Falles is entered on UNESCO's Representative List of the
Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
(See Wikipedia for a complete history. Click on the Falles 2015 link at the right and subsequent years for a large collection of general and specific topics and images.)
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AQUEST ANY:
LES DONES DE FALLES
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THIS YEAR:
THE WOMEN OF FALLES
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(And yes, she is holding an assault weapon and grenades.)
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("Pecadfias" / Sins)
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Had anyone asked, which they did not, I would have urged that the doves
be kept as a permanent statue - or as least for as long as they survived the elements.
This would have been a wonderful, if not somewhat fleeting, centerpiece for the city.
But, Falles and La Cremà prevailed!
