The Fallas Festival in Spain

It is sometimes strange how world-famous festivals are started. This is especially true with the Fallas Festival. 【小题1】.

Centuries ago, the city’s carpenters would empty their houses of all the old wood they had saved over the winter and burn it all in the local square. Over time, the carpenters began to use their old wood to carve different images. Sometimes they would create funny images of famous people. 【小题2】, and everything would be burnt.

The Fallas Festival is now one of the most popular festivals in Spain. 【小题3】. Today, 350 communities that make up Valencia work together to design and make two sculptures. These larger-than- life sculptures, often several meters high, are still made of wood, but also include cardboard. On the 15th of March, the sculptures are paraded around the city.

A competition is run where the best sculptures are chosen. These will not be burnt at the end of the festival. 【小题4】, which is open throughout the year. During the festival, there are lots of different community activities. Every activity ends with fireworks being let off during both the day and night.

【小题5】. On the final night, all the sculptures are collected and put on a bonfire(大火堆) in the main Valencia square. The fire is lit and all the year’s hard work comes to an end in towers of flames. Everyone watching says goodbye to winter and welcome to spring.