19th March: Fallas festival: Falles (in Valencian) are a Valencian tradition which celebrates Saint Joseph's Day (19 March) in Valencia, Spain. The term Fallas refers to both the celebration and the monuments created during the celebration.

Each neighbourhood of the city has an organized group of people, the Casal faller, that works all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners, usually featuring the famous speciality paella. Each casal faller produces a construction known as a falla which is eventually burnt. A casal faller is also known as a "comissió fallera". Formerly, much time would also be spent at the Casal Faller preparing the ninots (Valencian for puppets or dolls).

During the week leading up to 19 March, each group takes its ninot out for a grand parade, and then mounts it, each on its own elaborate firecracker-filled cardboard and papier-mâché artistic monument in a street of the given neighborhood. This whole assembly is a falla.

The ninots and their fallas are developed according to an agreed theme that was, and continues to be a satirical jab at anything or anyone unlucky enough to draw the attention of the critical eyes of the fallers - the celebrants themselves. There are more than 500 different fallas in Valencia, including those of other towns in the Land of Valencia.