Valencia’s biggest festival, Las Fallas, takes place every March with a hectic week of city firecrackers, fireworks and parades in honour of Saint Joseph, attracting around two million people.

The city is adorned with a myriad of papier maché effigies (ninots) – film stars, politicians and anyone of local, national or international notoriety have their space as colourfully lampooned caricature as a 15 or 20 foot model.

Last Fallas 2009 have left the following records:

• 384 commitees have worked hard for the festival
• 96,278 falleros have participated in the parades
• 9,165 musicians have accompanied the falleros
• 53.230 bouquets of flowers and 242 flower baskets for the Flower Offering to Our Lady of the Forsaken
• 772 effigies worth 10,64 millon euros have been burnt on the last day, the Cremà
• 300 firefighters controlled the Cremà throughout all Valencia
• The most expensive figure cost 900,000 euros, which got the first prize
• 4,820 fireworks for the Nit del Foc (Night of Fire)
• The economic impact of Las Fallas has been 752 million euros

These facts and figures come from Las Fallas’ official website www.fallas.com

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