Last night of Las Fallas in Valencia – in pictures
Las Fallas is a festival that lasts for weeks in which installations of parodic papier-mache, cardboard and wooden sculptures are burnt every year on the last day, in the ‘cremà’ to end the festivities
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Cardboard figurines burn on the last night of the Fallas festival in Valencia. The fallas, gigantic cardboard or wooden structures that portray current events and celebrities in which individual figures or ninots are placed, are burned in the streets as a tribute to San José (Saint Joseph), the patron saint of the carpenters’ guild. Since 2016 the festival has been recognised as part of the Unesco intangible cultural heritage of humanity
Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA
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Photograph: José Miguel Fernández/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA
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Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
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Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
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Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: José Miguel Fernández/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA
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Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA
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Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA
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Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA
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Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA
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