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Las Fallas festival in Valencia

Video. WATCH: Huge wooden figures being burnt in Las Fallas festival in Spain

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Las Fallas festival in Valencia is an annual celebration leading up to the feast of St. Joseph, the city's patron saint. At the end of the five-day fiesta, the large wooden Fallas structures are burnt.

Las Fallas festival in Valencia ended on Sunday with the burning of the large Fallas structures, in a tradition known as La Crema.

The five-day fiesta culminates on the 19th of March, to celebrate the feast of St. Joseph, Valencia's patron saint. 

Fallas are large wooden monuments which appear all over the eastern Spanish city during the festival.

 Awards are given to the creators of the best Fallas, but no matter how beautiful they are, they are all burnt in the festival's dramatic closing ceremony.

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