Fallas 2024: València erupts with colour and excitement!

Fallas in València is a great tradition that floods the streets and transcends borders, having received international recognition by UNESCO. Read on to find out what’s on every day during the festival. Put your comfy shoes on and head to this Mediterranean city for a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Fallas in València programme 2024 

Fallas in València gets going with the opening of the Ninot Exhibition on the 2 February. Each falla - association - offers up a small sculpture called a ninot with the hope that it will be saved from the flames by popular vote. Next up is the moving Crida, held at Serranos Towers, which brings the whole falla community together. 

With the arrival of March, activities step up a gear. From the 1 March, every day at 2pm, noisy mascletaes fire up into the air from Plaza del Ayuntamiento in a thunderous rhythmic spectacle of firecrackers. On 14 and 15 March, the Ninot Indultat (the ninots spared from the flames) are announced, and on the 15 the children’s fallas are revealed on the streets in an event known as la plantà. The fallas start to decorate the streets of the city. 

On 16 March, the large fallas are placed in the streets, changing the urbanscape entirely: take a stroll and you’ll be blown away by the colourful, artistic, satirical and caricaturesque sculptures that stand as tall as the buildings beside them. That same night will see the first of many firework displays at Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències.

La Ofrenda de Flores, the offering of flowers to La Mare de Déu dels Desamparats, fills the centre with blossoming bouquets on the 17 and 18 March. Get your emotions going at the parade decked in colour, musical ensembles and traditional dress. On the 17, there’s another firework display in the evening, and on the 18, it’s time for Nit del Foc, one of the most spectacular events of Fallas in which the night sky is lit up with fireworks during the early hours of the morning.

The 19 March arrives and with it comes San José Festival and climactic La Cremà, in which the countless sculptures that have adorned the city streets are burnt, one by one, marking an end to Fallas 2024 and making space for Fallas 2025!