FALLAS IN BENIDORM
The fallas were imported to Benidorm from Valencia from where they originate. The first festive commission in Benidorm was created 45 years ago. The commission of the Center, Els Tolls and Rincón de Loix are the groups that organize this festival in our town.

The celebration is organized around the week of March 14 to 20, highlighting as the most important acts the "plantà" (or installation of papier-mâché monuments) and the offering of flowers together with the "crema" (when we set fire on the monuments on the night of March 19.)

The origin of the festivities, according to the traditions, was due to the carpenters who burned, on the eve of the day of their patron saint, Saint Joseph, the shavings and old junk left over from the workshops before spring came.



Over time the "Fallas" have evolved in the representation of scenes of daily life, generally political aspects and the social and cultural world, made in papier-mache monuments and whose protagonists are ninots (dolls). Every year one of the ninots is pardoned and saved from burning.

Below find attached the 2022 program for the FALLAS

 

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