Granada – The Cave People of Guadix
Guadix is a beautiful town an hour east of Granada, which we visited on our trip back to Valencia. (It's also the home of the pyrotechnic company who put on…
Guadix is a beautiful town an hour east of Granada, which we visited on our trip back to Valencia. (It's also the home of the pyrotechnic company who put on…
https://vimeo.com/10384904 We took my dad, a lifelong fan of Hemingway, to his first bullfight on the last day of Fallas, squeezing into the stadium's tiny bench seats as best we…
https://vimeo.com/10373591 After 6 years of dominance by Nou Campanar, the judges of Fallas' "Special Section" monuments have crowned a new champion. Ladies and Gentleman, put your hands together for Convento…
During the last couple days of Fallas, thousands of falleras from all over the province make a pilgrimage to Valencia's Plaza de la Virgen to deliver flowers to Our Lady…
https://vimeo.com/10285276 The Night of Fire is one of the most eagerly anticipated events during Fallas. Thousands of people gather around the Paseo de la Alameda at the ungodly hour of…
Right after the last official mascletà of Fallas, a lot of commissions shoot off their own street mascletàs. While we sat down to lunch, the rhythmic, explosive sounds in the…
https://vimeo.com/10350217 The last of Fallas's mascletàs is always something special -- it's only too bad that the weather didn't play along nicely for the crowd, or for Pirotecnia Caballer. Before…
https://vimeo.com/10321591 The Cabalgata del Fuego, which takes place along Calle Colón at 7pm on the last day of Fallas, is a relatively new addition to the calendar. But what the…
https://vimeo.com/10307564 On Friday night, after a day full of bad weather and a month full of noise, Fallas 2010 finally came to its fiery end at la Cremà. The destruction…
https://vimeo.com/10267301 Today's mascletà, by Ricardo Caballer, was my parents first and it was a great one! The weather wasn't beautiful, but the fireworks made up for it... the finale set…