Valencia Fallas Tour

During the Fallas, Valencia takes on a completely different atmosphere. The streets are filled with music, fireworks, lights, churros stalls and enormous monuments that suddenly appear in squares and at crossroads. This tour is designed to help you understand everything behind this atmosphere and experience the festival with a much deeper understanding of its context.

Accompanied by an official guide, you’ll explore the heart of the city whilst discovering how the fallas are built, just how much work goes into each one, and what their scenes, characters and social commentary mean. Many of them use humour and satire to address politics, society and current affairs, so viewing a falla with someone who can explain its details completely transforms the experience.

One of the tour’s main highlights is getting up close to some of the ‘Special Section’ fallas – the most spectacular and ambitious in the competition. Once they are fully erected, the tour includes entry to three fallas, so you can appreciate their figures, finishes and scale at close quarters.

If you take the tour on 12, 13, 14 or 15 March, the fallas may still be under construction, so you won’t be able to go inside them. On those days, you’ll view them from the outside whilst discovering how the ‘plantà’ (erection) is progressing and, as an alternative, you’ll be treated to chocolate with churros, one of the essential classics of this time of year.

Throughout the tour, you’ll also learn why the Fallas end up being burnt, how the competition works, what role the Fallas artists play, and how a celebration that lasts just a few days is actually the result of a whole year’s work.