Flamenco Festival Valencia 2012
Singer: Niña Pastori
Flamenco Valenciano de la Compañia de Danza Mediterráneo.
Cante Flamenco: Juan Vaderrama
From 6th to 12th February. Further information www.palaudevalencia.com
THE FALLAS IN VALENCIA
The Fallas festivals (1st-19th March), is without a doubt, a unique and universal festivity that no one should miss, are a high point of the year.
Everyone who has to see the Fallas at least one in a lifetime -an extraordinary fiesta held in the streets to the sound of marching bands taking all the streets and fireworks, the smell of gunpowder mixed with hot chocolate and fritters, and countless parades with everyone in traditional costumes.
Art and humour coincide in hilarious-looking “ninots”, of Fallas figurines that diringly criticize current customs, traditions and fashions.
Finally, on the night of March 19 th, the purifying fire ends the short-lived beauty of the Fallas, provoking a few tears at the end ot another natural cycle and the beginning of spring.
Experience Valencia in Fallas in our Section : Fallas in Valencia
La Tomatina de Bunyol (Valencia)
LA TOMATINA: International Fiesta of Tourist Interest.
Celebrations Schedule
Bunyol celebrations are from 14th to 31st of August. On 24th will begin the Tomatina Village activitates with music concerts and DJ’s sessions. On 25th of August Buzz!, the popular PlayStation quiz game, is hosting its World Championship Final at Tomatina Village and the NONSTOP session that it will precedes the Tomatina act at the last Wednesday of August.
Tomatoes arrives to Bunyol with lots of fun and music.
Origins and History of La Tomatina Festival in Bunyol - Valencia -
It all started on the last Wednesday of August 1945, when some young people were getting fresh air in the town square. The evening did not promise much, so they decided to form part of a parade that was taking place with musicians and carnival figures of giants and enormous headed individuals. The impetus of their entry caused the fall of a participant who full of rage, began to hit everyone in his way. By a quirk of fate, there just happened to be a stand of vegetables beside them. The angry crowd started throwing tomatoes at each other until the public law put an end to the vegetable battle.
The following year, the young people repeated the tomato fight on a voluntary basis and brought tomatoes from home. Although the celebration was dissolved by the police during the following years, the boys, without knowing it, had made history. La Tomatina was banned in the early fifties, although this fact did not dissuade participants, eventhough some were arrested. But the will of the locals was heard and the celebration returned, more people took part in it and it became increasingly wild.
Again the event was canceled until 1955, when, in protest, the Burial of the Tomato was held: an event in which residents carried a coffin with a big tomato inside. The parade was accompanied by a music band playing funeral marches, and it obtained a complete success. Finally, in 1957 official permision was granted and La Tomatina festival was formaly established. After that it has been the City Councils of the municipality themselves that have organized and promoted this curious battle, that has made Buñol world famous.
The festival became popular in the rest of Spain thanks to Javier Basilio who, showed the event in a television program Informe Semanal “Week report” on Spanish TV. Since 1980, it has been the different City Councils that have supplied the tomatoes to the participants, which year after year, increase in number and enthusiasm. The success has led to have La Tomatina, of Buñol, be considered, as of August 2002, International Fiesta of Tourist Interest by the General Secretariat of Tourism of Spain.
XATIVA (VALENCIA) AUGUST FAIR
XATIVA, MONUMENTAL CITY
AUGUST FAIR
Summertime is the time for the Fira d’Agost celebrations, these festivities bring to Xátiva a multitude of traditional and playful acts such as shooting contests, bullfights and “albaes”. The inhabitants have celebrated these festivities since 1250. Progression through the years has introduced new events in the festive programme in which there are fireworks, sporting competitions and concerts by popular singers of the moment.
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