Burn Baby Burn: The Pyrotechnic Celebration of
Las Fallas
Photos & Words by Gregory Lecointe
Only here would you find yourself facing
a 20 metres dragon ridden by a treasure hunter, a dozen of
saucy fairies, promiscuous witches, naughty leprechauns, and
scary ogres, all of which looking at you with a twinkle in
their eye making you wonder if you are not actually here to
entertain them rather than the opposite.
This is the Falla of Campanar, the neighbourhood who won for
the third consecutive time the prize of the best Falla. It
is said that its sponsor, the developer Armeniana has spent
near one million euro for its construction – all to be
gone in smoke four days later…
Gregory Lecointe is a culture vulture
MORE ON GREGORY'S SOJOURN
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No Small Martial (March 2008)
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