It’s traditionally said that “Las Fallas” of Valencia is one of the best festivity in the world. It’s the millenial tradition of fire in spring equinox. In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Chuch, incapable of stopping the pagan celebration of fire worship, decided to sanctify it in honour of Saint Joseph, who was a carpenter. It’s also said that valencian carpenters used to take out their tools and remains or wastes of all year work, making with them rustic puppets with sarcastic critics, or life-like statues, dressed up tu look like well-kwon but unpopular local characters, and bonfires. Nowadays, the statues, some of them over 30 mts. tall, are made of cardboard and represent different aspects of modern society; so they have turned into these huge works of art that we know as “fallas”.