Fallas in Spain

[maryblue67]

Hello! At this time of the year there is a huge festival in Valencia, 
Spain, called Fallas, in which we build very large monuments (several 
stories high) made of wood and paper, which normally have scenes of 
hte most important events of the previous year, and tonight they are 
burned at midnight. If you want to learn more about it, there is a 
promotional video in here;

http://www.fallas.com

i strongly recommend you to see it!

But why am i telling you this? Well, you can imagine that Harry 
Potter is one of the most popular topics of the past year, and thus 
it was portrayed in some Fallas. I haven't seen them myself (since 
i'm in the US and i'm missing the whole festival :(  ), but i have 
seen that one of the dolls that has the most votes to be saved from 
the fire (what we call "ninot indultat") is Harry Potter!!

You can see a picture of it here:
http://www.mundo-fallero.com/mfallero/secciones/expodelninot2002.htm

and assembled in its Falla here:

http://www.fallas.com/fallaexposicion/ultima_hora.htm

(middle of the page, among the pics)

Well, i hope you like it and it's relevant enough...

Maria