I have been already more than 8 years promoting Valencia worldwide doing different things and I want to share with you the promotion that we did last weekend from our city and our main Festival: The Fallas Festival– which hopefully will be listed as Intangible World Heritage by UNESCO in a few weeks time.
Regarding Fallas, you can see and check a lot (several years promoting Fallas) at this blog; but let me explain you a little bit about this story (as far as I know)… last year a Fallas artisan (Mario Gual) and our VicePresident from Fallas Management Board (Montse Catalá) travelled to Lancaster (in the north of Manchester) to do a Fallas exhibition at the LightUp Festival… they did it so well that they decided to buy a Falla for their event (which means we exported a Falla!! making history and building up a Falla for first time in UK to be burnt at Bonfire night).
In the middle of this 2 pictures (by the way from Valencia photograph Armando Romero)… we did not only take to UK our art and traditional clothes, we also took there our most international dish: Valencian Paella (of course without chorizo) and our music with a great “marching band” called “La Peris Llapisera”… and all this headed by our new Fallas Queen: Ms. Raquel Alario.
We took to the North of UK all our Mediterranean party mood!
Some more info and pictures can be seen at this article from El Iberico and this article 1 and article 2 from official website www.fallas.com
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