
A worker eyes the assembly of the Valencia City Hall's Falla during the preparations for Fallas Festival in Valencia, eastern Spain, 11 March 2012. The 'falla' is an installation of parodic huge papier-mache, cardboard and wooden sculptures. The traditional Fallas feast is a mass festival held in Valencia region annually from 15 until 19 March to mark Saint Joseph, the patron of carpenters. The fallas are burned in 19 March to end with the festival.





A painter works on a cardboard satirical sculpture, known locally as a Falla, during preparations for the Fallas Festival in Valencia on March 13, 2012. The Fallas will be burned in the streets of Valencia on March 19, 2012, as a tribute to St Joseph, patron saint of the carpenters' guild

A painter works on a cardboard satirical sculpture, known locally as a Falla, during preparations for the Fallas Festival in Valencia on March 13, 2012. The Fallas will be burned in the streets of Valencia on March 19, 2012, as a tribute to St Joseph, patron saint of the carpenters' guild.

A painter works on a cardboard satirical sculpture, known locally as a Falla, during preparations for the Fallas Festival in Valencia on March 13, 2012. The Fallas will be burned in the streets of Valencia on March 19, 2012, as a tribute to St Joseph, patron saint of the carpenters' guild

A view of a sculpture in the midst of smoke left by the daily noon fireworks, or 'Mascleta', at the Town Hall square in Valencia, Spain, 14 March 2012.

A painter works on a cardboard satirical sculpture, known locally as a Falla, during preparations for the Fallas Festival in Valencia on March 13, 2012. The Fallas will be burned in the streets of Valencia on March 19, 2012, as a tribute to St Joseph, patron saint of the carpenters' guild
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