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Fallas Fiesta in Elda

Enjoy the most characteristic acts of the Fallas, such as the Plantà (Placing) of the monuments, the Floral Offering or the Cremà (Burning), but moved in the calendar to the month of September. This is what happens in Elda where, since 1954, at the end of the summer, with more pleasant temperatures, one can experience one of the most emblematic, traditional and well-known fiestas of the Region of Valencia.

The origins of the Fallas Fiestas are associated with a pagan ritual that commemorates the arrival of Spring halfway through the month of March, but in the Alicante town of Elda they hold their semana grande (local fiestas lasting approximately a week), just at the arrival of autumn and as the culmination of their Patron Saint Feast Days in honour of the Virgen de la Salud and the Cristo del Buen Suceso which start at the beginning of the month.

On the following day the visit to the Official Falla and the Floral Offering take place, the most touching act of these fiestas, which gives way  to the Cremà (Burning) of all the falla monuments, beginning with the Official Falla. Throughout these days of fiesta there are also passacaglias, verbenas (open-air celebrations on the eve of a saint’s day), contests and the fireworks.