The festivals and events in Valencia are eclectic, enchanting, exclusive
and engrossing and present an opportunity for the tourists to Valencia to
familiarize themselves with all the fascinating facets of the Valencia
culture. The cultural calendar of Valencia is chock-a-block with almost
countless festivals and events in Valencia, each one a colorful canvas of
myriad motifs and heady hues.
About The Festivals and Events in Valencia
La Fallas Fiesta, Valencia is the most significant of all the festivals
and events in Valencia, Spain. It takes place in the middle of the month
of March (14th or 15th) and continues for a week amidst dazzling fireworks
displays, the burning of mammoth life-life wooden statues, floral
offerings to the female patron saint of Valencia, Madrededeu dels
Desamparats and of course, the ubiquitous rounds of merrymaking and
revelry. One of the most famous of the Spanish festivals, La Fallas
Fiesta, Valencia is actually held in honor of St. Joseph, the patron saint
of the carpenters.
If you can come down to Valencia during this time you can also catch up on
some of the other festivals and events in Valencia. Some of the other
noted Valencia festivals held during this time are the Easter's Holy Week
celebrations that take place some time in the end of March or beginning of
April and the festival of Saint Vincent Ferrer.
Carnaval, Valencia and Las Carnestoltes, Valencia are the other noteworthy
festivals and events in Valencia that draw the crowds from all over the
world. These two festivals in Spain mark the famed Carnival season in
Spain that takes place in the month of February. These are fun-filled
affairs that comprise of almost endless rounds of partying, colorful
parades, singing and dancing routines, fancy costume shows and drinking
and eating orgies that continue till the wee hours of the morning.
A little bit earlier in the Valencia festivals calendar are the
celebrations to honor Saint Anthony Abbot on January 17th and that too
mark the day of Saint Vincent the Martyr on January 22nd.
However, the craziest and thus the most enjoyable of the festivals and
events in Valencia is definitely La Tomatina, Valencia. Enjoyment at La
Tomatina is of a messy kind, with the festival actually being a tomato
fight that takes in the streets of Bunol, on the last Wednesday of August.
On the last day of the festival, thousands of pounds of tomatoes get
hurled across the air, hitting whoever is in the way. The casualties: a
happy crowd drenched in tomato juice, their faces smeared in tomato pulp.
Some of the other famous festivals and events in Valencia are the the Holy
Cross Festival held in May, the Festival of Carmen that takes place in
June/July, the Battle of the Flowers in the month of July and the festival
of Saint Dionysus in October.
The festivals and events in Valencia paint a riot of colors across the
cultural canvas of Valencia.
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