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Culture & History beach holiday - beach town - beaches in Spain - Benicarló - celebrations - El Saler - festivities - golf - holiday in Spain - local cuisine - luxury hotel - luxury hotels - Mediterranean beaches - Mediterranean coast - Parador Benicarló - Parador El Saler - sea - sea views - seaside holidays in Spain - Spain beaches - Spain golf - Spanish customs - traditional celebrations - watersports The Explosive Thrill of Las Fallas Tuesday, 17 February, 2015 Paradores Parador de Benicarló Parador de El Saler Las Fallas are undoubtedly Spain’s most explosive festival, a five day party where thousands of pyrotechnics are set off and countless paper-mâché statues are displayed only to be set alight when the event draws to a close. Discover this unique celebration first-hand during your upcoming holiday in Spain and explore the beauty of Valencia, all from the comfort of two of Paradores’ luxury and historic hotels' finest locations! A pyrotechnic paradise Held in Valencia between March 15th and 19th, Las Fallas are a special celebration held in honour of Saint Joseph, patron saint of carpenters. Celebrate Las Fallas from the comfort of Parador El Saler For centuries the carpenters marked the event by creating celebratory statues that where ultimately set alight when the festivities concluded. Today, that tradition continues, with different artists competing to erect falles, satiric paper-mâché statues around the city. During the five days that the celebration lasts, countless parades are held, and each day fireworks and firecracker events take place. On the final night of Las Fallas the entire city comes out to watch La Cremá, the ceremony during which the falles are set alight as thousands dance and drink until dawn. Enjoying Las Fallas in style Experience Las Fallas first hand from two of Paradores’ finest destinations! Parador El Saler is an ideal spot from which to experience this unique festival given its location just outside of Valencia, close enough to take advantage of the partying while far enough to not be overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle. Set between the Albufera lagoon and the Mediterranean Sea, this modern hotel boasts a spectacular golf course, a swimming pool and a grass football field for sporty diversions. In the evenings, make sure to head back to the Parador for dinner, as this is paella country, and the chef is thrilled to prepare this iconic Valencian dish for your culinary pleasure. After a day of partying, unwind at Parador El Saler's spa Another option is to head to Parador Benicarló, a delightful seaside lodge that is just 30 metres from the Mediterranean and surrounded by a charming garden. This peaceful Costa del Azahar town is a great spot from which to disconnect after a few days of partying and recover while lounging on the pristine beach. More active guests can take on all sorts of activities at the nearby Estación Náutica Benicarló-Peñíscola, where water sports are the name of the game. Cool-off in Parador Benicarló's pool! Prepared to take on the thrills of Las Fallas? Contact Paradores El Saler or Benicarló to arrange your visit today!.

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Fallas Festival
FALLAS FESTIVAL Fallas is a traditional celebration held in commemoration of Saint Joseph in Valencia, Spain. The term Fallas refers to both the celebration and the monuments created during the celebration. A number of towns in the Valencian Community have similar celebrations inspired by the original in Valencia. Each neighbourhood of the city has an organized group of people, the Casal faller that works all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners, usually featuring the famous speciality paella. Each casal faller produces a construction known as a falla which is eventually burnt. Fallas and ninots. Formerly, much time would be spent by the Casal faller preparing the ninots (Valencian for puppets or dolls). During the week leading up to March 19, each group takes its ninot out for a grand parade, and then mounts it, each on its own elaborate firecracker-filled cardboard and paper-mache artistic monument in a street of the given neighbourhood. This whole assembly is a falla. The ninots and their fallas are constructed according to an agreed upon theme that has traditionally been, and continues to be, a satirical jab at anything or anyone who draws the attention of the critical eyes of the falleros. In modern times, the whole two week long festival has spawned a huge local industry, to the point that an entire suburban area has been designated the City of Fallas - Ciutat fallera. Here, crews of artists and artisans, sculptors, painters, and many others all spend months producing elaborate constructions of paper and wax, wood and styrofoam tableaux towering up to five stories, composed of fanciful figures in outrageous poses arranged in gravity-defying architecture, each produced at the direction of the many individual neighbourhood Casals faller who vie with each other to attract the best artists, and then to create the most outrageous monument to their target.
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Pre-Modern Iberian Fragments in the Present: Studies in Philology, Time, Representation and Value By Heather Marie Bamford A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literatures in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in Charge: Professor Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco, Co-Chair Professor José Rabasa, Co-Chair Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Professor Ignacio Navarrete Professor David Hult Fall 2010 1 Abstract Pre-Modern Iberian Fragments in the Present: Studies in Philology, Time, Representation, and Value by Heather Marie Bamford Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Literatures and Languages University of California, Berkeley Professors Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco and José Rabasa, Co-Chairs This dissertation examines the uses of medieval and early-modern Iberian cultural objects in the present. It draws on the notion of fragment and actual fragmentary testimonies to study how pre- modern Iberian things and texts are reconstituted and used for various projects of personal, institutional, national and transnational reconstitution in the present. The corpus objects are necessarily diverse in chronological scope, with examples from the medieval, early-modern and modern periods, and touch upon works of many genres: chivalric romance, royal and personal correspondence, early-modern and modern historiography, Hispano-Arabic and Hispano-Hebrew lyric, inscriptions, pre-modern and modern biographies and 21st century book exhibitions. The dissertation proposes that Iberian fragments are engaged in various forms of reconstitution or production in the present and, at the same time, are held as timeless, unchanging entities that have the capability to allow users to connect with something genuinely old, truly Spanish and, indeed, eternal.
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05-07.10.2016 Valencia, Spain
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