Valencia, Spain – The United States has its fireworks on the Fourth of July. Valencia has the mascletàs of Las Fallas. “It is a beautiful noise!” said an onlooker, expectantly waiting for the show to ...

Every year Valencia celebratesancient \"Las Fallas\" fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph. Every year Valencia celebratesancient -"Las Fallas-" ...

Kindergarten students at Fort River School in Amherst created this colorful project on display in the school’s lobby to showcase the Caminantes dual-language program, and at the same time celebrate ...

VALENCIA, Spain — The enormous blue cone slowly crushes tiny piles of sand that represent houses. It symbolizes the deadly havoc wrought by floods that ravaged Spain's eastern Valencia five months ago ...

Valencia, Spain’s third largest city, is known for its oranges and paella. But by the middle of March, the world descends here for an entirely different reason: a spectacular, raucous five-day street ...

VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Valencia's Las Fallas festival lit up on the early hours of Wednesday the Mediterranean sky with fireworks and flames from blazing sculptures of all shapes and sizes - ...

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 ...

Fire and noise are central to the Las Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain. Millions of revellers descend on the city each year to enjoy the amazing fallas --or monuments, fireworks and open-air music ...

VALENCIA, SPAIN - MARCH 20: A 'Ninot' (puppet) depicting Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy burns during the last day of the Las Fallas Festival on March 20, 2013 in Valencia, Spain. The Fallas ...