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A City Ablaze

The story goes that Valencia's Fallas originated sometime around the end of the fifteenth century when the carpenters of the City celebrated the end of winter by burning the rubbish that had accumulated in their workshops. If those poor woodworkers could see what their bonfires have become, their eyes would pop out in amazement...

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