A festive atmosphere has completely inundated Valencia. In every street, every square and every Casal (festival tent) you will feel the euphoria building up prior to the start of the most eagerly-anticipated event of the year as the final preparations are taking place for the official start of the Fallas 2010.
On Monday 15th March, the official acts get underway for this Festival of international tourist interest with the Plantà infantil and throughout the following days tourists and locals alike will enjoy a whole host of events and activities.

“Las Fallas” wouldn’t be complete without “mascletaes”, which begin on 1st March and continue up to the end of the festivities on the 19th. At 2.00 o’clock each afternoon, Valencians and visitors gather in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento to enjoy the vibrant explosions of more than 100 kg of gunpowder, set off within a five minute period and which create a unique, thunderous rhythm.

One again Valencia is immersed in the preparations for its most international festivity: “Las Fallas”. From 15th to 19th March, the city is transformed into an explosion of colours, aromas, magic and joy. Spring is about to begin and the city’s festivities extend their warmest welcome.
From March 1st the smell of gunpowder seizes the city with its “mascletaes”, musical explosions that shake the bones of even the calmest spectators, whilst as of 15th March the city’s streets play host for four intense days to more than 700 satirical monuments . 

During 2010 Valencia will remain as host of important international events such as Formula One, Global Champions Tour, MTV Winter, Las Fallas and many others in the media, cinema making, sports and fashion landscape.

Valencia is working thoroughly to attract Japanese tourists. It is one of the few cities in Spain that has a quality website in Japanese (in terms of translation and content). Valencia has targeted online campaigning for the Japanese market for years, and it is continually improving its content.
The campaign this year is a website in Japanese only, which takes advantage of multimedia content, such as a video of a Japanese girl who has visited Valencia (obviously speaking in Japanese) thanks to the online game “Ninots Contest”.

HolaValencia’s exclusive Fallas 2009 Poster is ready for order! All the gigantic Disney-like monuments of the Fallas 2009 Seccion Especial (worth from 120,000 to 900,000 euros) are perfectly photographed by Jürgen Horn of the same blog.
There are 3 different sizes available. These high-quality posters are printed individually on glossy 240g/m² paper, and feature original photography.

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.