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Fallas of Xàtiva

Xàtiva, La Costera, Valencia

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Fallas of Xàtiva

Curiosity · Xàtiva, La Costera, Valencia

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The Fallas of Xàtiva date back to 1865, when the first fallas monument, dedicated to anchovy fishing, was set up in the Plaza de la Trinidad; with more than 150 years of history, it is the first city, after Valencia, with documented evidence of this festival. Originally they were celebrated for San Antonio Abad and not for San José as today; the Civil War interrupted the celebrations, which resumed in 1941. They are held from 15 to 19 March in honour of San José, with the plantà and the cremà as the central events, along with the offering and the awarding of prizes. In 2025, 38 fallas were set up, two for each of the 19 commissions, with a collective of more than 5,000 falleros. Since 2015 they have been a Bien de Interés Cultural Inmaterial (Spain's highest level of heritage protection for intangible heritage), and UNESCO declared them Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016.

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