Fallas Museum Valencia


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The cosmopolitan Spanish city of Valencia has lots to offer its tourist. A holiday in this city would definitely keep you occupied most of the time. From sight seeing to indulging in a whole lot of entertaining activities, Valencia is a truly fun filled and action packed vacation destination. However among these one of the most fascinating aspects of the city are the Museums in Valencia and most of them capture its equally enthralling culture scenario. One such Museum is the Fallas Museum, Valencia based on the city's most important annual festival La Fallas Fiesta, Valencia. Taking place every year specifically between the 15th of March and 19th of March, it is a very colorful festival, featuring gorgeous costumes, brilliant fireworks and lots of local delicacies.

The Fallas Museum, Valencia located just about 20 minutes away from the Valencia Station and houses a compact display of the city's age old culture. It gives a deeper insight into the history, the rituals, past celebrations and other nitty-gritty's of the Fallas Fiesta of Valencia. Thus even if you are not able to plan your vacation at the time when the festival is actually held, you will hardly miss out on much.

The interior of this unique Fallas Museum, Valencia contains some of the most intriguing models which are displayed during the festival. However these are just life-sized versions of much larger forms which are burnt as part of the celebration. The Fallas Museum, Valencia also displays some sculptures which were actually used in the festival. Starting from the festivities of the year 1920 to the present, the models have been set up sequentially. Most of them look like Disneyland cartoons and are even inspired from movie actors. You can also see the interesting way of making these models in the Fallas Museum in Spain.

The Fallas Museum, Valencia also accompanies it compilation of models with posters, paintings, pictures from the Past Fallas festivals. It also houses a replica of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, the place from where the Fallas firecrackers are burnt.

Address: Fallas Museum
Plaza de Monteolivete 4,
Valencia,
Spain

Timings: From Tuesday to Saturday the Museum is open from 10 am to 2 pm
And from 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm
On Sundays and bank holidays it is open from 10 am to 3 pm.

Admission: Entry fee charged

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