Valencia| Carlos Bazarra (EFE).- The city of Valencia lives this Sunday the final day of its Fallas with the cremà, starting at eight in the afternoon, of the more than 760 monuments, between large and children, spread over a multitude of neighborhoods and that leave some of the best tourist and economic records in recent years.
These were the Fallas of full normality, now without any restrictions due to the covid and with weather forecasts as rosy as the hotel prospects, especially at the end of the festivities on the weekend and Monday the 20th being a holiday in the Community of Madrid, which this year it already has four high-speed rail connections with Valencia.
The festive plan for this Sunday begins, even with the hangover of the Nit del Foc -which from one o’clock and for twenty minutes will have illuminated the Valencian dawn with a spectacular display of fireworks-, with the traditional “despertaes”, which between seven and nine in the morning deafen every neighborhood.
Music and fireworks to announce the day of San José
Hundreds of falleros, in some cases accompanied by brass bands, announce to the neighborhood with thousands of pyrotechnic explosions that the day of San José, patron saint of carpenters who gave rise to these festivities, has arrived, after which they retire to have breakfast or make up for lost hours. of sleep during so many days of celebration, gunpowder, music, parades and paellas.
Throughout the morning the streets of the center, and other areas with special fallas, will be filled again with tens of thousands of tourists who will rush the last hours of artistic life of the fallas; the most visited and photographed will be, once again, those of the Special section and the municipal section of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
And whoever wants to contemplate, or at least tremble due to the proximity of the terrestrial and aerial earthquakes, the last mascletà of the fallas cycle at two in the afternoon in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, go with time and a lot of patience because it will surely be repeated, or It even exceeds the crowd that has taken place this Saturday, with more than 120,000 people throughout the area and which, according to the Local Police, has been the most massive shot in the last twenty years.
At six o’clock in the afternoon, the Cabalgata del Fuego will depart from the surroundings of the Estación del Norte, a spectacle of demons and fireworks that has gained a place in recent years in the festive calendar due to its spectacular nature, at the end of which, in the square from the Porta de la Mar, the ritual of the Cremà will begin.
The children, the first faults to burn
The infantile fallas will begin to burn at 8:00 p.m.; the winner of this year, the “Tri” of the Convento Jerusalén, will do so at 8:30 p.m., and the municipal one in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, dedicated to the traditional dances and dances of the Valencian Community, at 9:00 p.m., before the foreseeable gaze tearful of the child fallera and her court of honor.
At 10 p.m. it will be the turn of the purifying fire of the large fallas, although the winner (the colorful kingdom of “Kromátika” from Exposición-Micer Mascó) will do so half an hour later and the municipal one, the enormous heart designed for the first time by a woman (Marina Puche) and executed by the fallero artist Manolo García, will begin to burn after the fireworks display that will begin at eleven o’clock at night at the “zero kilometer” of the Fallas de València.
La Cremà will give way to the enormous work of the cleaning teams to remove the ashes from the monuments and the garbage left by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who are estimated to have passed through the Valencian capital these days.
The official and business assessments on Monday will confirm the degree of success of some Fallas marked by optimism and the desire for normality, despite the current crisis and the consequences of the three years of the pandemic that conditioned them so much.