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Las Fallas Festival in Spain

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    Las Fallas is undoubtedly one of the most unique festivals in Spain.

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You know what today is right it marks the beginning of the -- fight -- festival in Spain.

Over the next few days the streets of Valencia will be filled -- -- fights or at least the bowl rings will be filled with -- fights.

Parades in the streets and of course those iconic paper -- -- floats it is an annual tradition dating back centuries.

Police yet Kenya is streaming live from Valencia Spain -- Hi John and right behind me this school structure is a buyout which is the namesake.

This festival known as last I asked that communities.

Of Valencia work all year to -- this spectacular rite of spring.

The finance themselves are designed by artist all over the country more than 300 totals some costing up to 350000.

Dollars to make and they can reaches high is 789.

Stories high.

And then there are the children's displays -- just just beautiful but much smaller all of them are voted on by the people.

And the winners go into a museum which is a great honor here.

Another part of this festival is the daily firecracker show listen.

This is known as the -- -- -- it happens in the center of town every day at 2 PM.

From the first of march until the end of -- fiesta and next week.

Does the -- awesome experience in it as something and I have to say TV -- you need to be here to experience it because once it the explosions go off.

You can feel it getting wet and a lot of guys like a symphony of -- all lines of explosions fassel is designed.

Now John back -- buy gas at the end of the festival next Wednesday and Thursday.

That ON CN's will light them on fire it's pretty orderly but -- bond fires all over this city it's to mark the beginning of spring the end of the old.

And -- -- beginning of the new.

John that is quite a party.

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