The must-see Fallas events so you don’t miss a thing
If you’re visiting Valencia during the Fallas, you will probably have already noticed that the city changes completely: streets filled with fallas monuments, the smell of gunpowder in the air, marching bands playing and thousands of people enjoying one of Spain’s most famous festivals.
The Fallas of Valencia take place every year in March and combine tradition, art and impressive fireworks displays. For several days the city hosts events that form part of the official Fallas calendar: mascletàs, floral offerings, fireworks shows and, as the grand finale, the Cremà.
If you are staying at Hotel Turia Valencia, here is a summary of the main Fallas events from 13 to 19 March 2026, so you can plan your visit and experience the most important moments of the festival.
Discover the programme day by day
During the Fallas many events take place throughout the day, but these are the main ones worth knowing if you are visiting Valencia for the first time.
2:00 pm – Mascletà
📍 Where to see it: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
🧨 Fireworks company: Vulcano
If you have never experienced a mascletà, this may be your first real introduction to the Fallas. It is not a typical fireworks display: the key element here is not so much the visual effect, but the sound, rhythm and intensity.
For several minutes, hundreds of firecrackers are fired in a carefully designed sequence that gradually builds until the grand finale, popularly known as the “earthquake”, when the entire square vibrates.
The mascletà takes place every day at 2:00 pm in Plaza del Ayuntamiento, and the one on 13 March already marks the beginning of the most intense days of the festival.
Useful tips
Try to arrive early, as the square and surrounding streets fill up quickly.
If you are travelling with small children or are sensitive to noise, it is best to bring hearing protection.
You don’t need to be right at the front to enjoy it — the experience can also be felt very well from nearby streets.
11:59 pm – Night-time fireworks display
📍 Location: Turia Garden, between Reino Bridge and Monteolivete Bridge (near Palau de les Arts)
At night, gunpowder takes centre stage again, this time with colourful fireworks lighting up the sky above Valencia.
These shows gather thousands of people every evening and mark the beginning of the most important days of the festival.
Tip
Arrive early to find a good viewing spot, especially along the Turia riverbed.
During the entire day, the Fallas commissions work intensively on the final preparations of the monuments that will soon be installed throughout the city. This atmosphere before the plantà is one of the most special moments to walk around Valencia and see how the fallas begin to take shape.
2:00 pm – Mascletà
📍 Where to see it: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
🧨 Fireworks company: Aitana
Even if you have already seen a mascletà on another day, it is worth remembering that no two are exactly the same.
Each fireworks company designs its own sequence, rhythm and finale. That is why, even if you watch more than one, the experience always changes.
If today is your first day in Valencia during the Fallas, this is one of the events we most recommend experiencing in person, because it quickly helps you understand the importance of gunpowder in the festival.
9:00 am – Plantà of the children’s fallas
📍 Where to see it: Throughout the city
The plantà is the moment when the Fallas monuments are completely assembled in the streets.
On the morning of the 15th, the children’s fallas are installed. These are the smaller and more family-friendly versions of the large monuments.
If you are not sure what the Fallas are, you can think of them as large temporary artistic compositions, full of colour, satire and scenes that tell stories. The children’s monuments are usually particularly colourful and easy to explore at a relaxed pace.
Useful tips
This is a great day to stroll through different Fallas neighbourhoods and start seeing monuments before the biggest crowds arrive on the 18th and 19th.
The fallas in the city centre are the most visited, but it’s also worth exploring quieter streets.
2:00 pm – Mascletà in Plaza del Ayuntamiento
📍 Where to see it: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
🧨 Fireworks company: Valenciana
The daily appointment with gunpowder continues.
If you still have not seen a mascletà, it remains one of the essential events of the festival. And if you have already seen one, today could be a good day to try a different point of view: closer to the square if you want to feel it at full volume, or from a nearby street if you prefer a more comfortable experience.
11:59 pm – L’Albà de las Fallas
📍 Where to see it: Different points across the city, especially in Fallas neighbourhoods
The night of 15 to 16 March is one of the most special of the entire Fallas week, as it marks the great night of the plantà.
While the Fallas commissions finish assembling the large monuments, the city celebrates L’Albà, a night filled with fireworks and an atmosphere of excitement, work and anticipation before all the fallas are completed.
It is a perfect night to wander through the city, see activity around the Fallas meeting places (casales) and feel that Valencia is literally preparing its great showcase of ephemeral art.
8:00 am – Plantà of all fallas
📍 Where to see it: Throughout the city
By the morning of 16 March, all the fallas must be fully installed.
Both the children’s monuments and the large fallas are now officially ready to be visited and judged.
This is a wonderful day to explore Valencia as if it were an open-air museum. Monuments appear all over the city — from monumental creations to smaller neighbourhood fallas — and together they form the true essence of the festival.
2:00 pm – Mascletà
📍 Where to see it: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
🧨 Fireworks company: Valenciana
By the time the 16 March mascletà takes place, the city is already completely taken over by the Fallas.
The atmosphere in the centre becomes even more intense, so it is wise to allow extra time when moving around the city.
4:30 pm – Prize ceremony
📍 Where to see it: Stage in Plaza del Ayuntamiento
Once the monuments have been installed, one of the important moments for the Fallas commissions arrives: the awards ceremony.
This is a very traditional Fallas event and very much part of city life, because behind every falla there is an enormous amount of work over many months.
Although it may not be the best-known event for first-time visitors, it helps you understand that the Fallas are not only about spectacle — they are also about neighbourhood pride and strong community involvement.
11:59 pm – Fireworks display
📍 Where to see it: Turia Garden
On the night of the 16th there is another fireworks display, this time in the form of a classic fireworks castle in the former Turia riverbed.
Here the visual spectacle takes the lead: colour, height, rhythm and a display designed to be admired while looking up at the sky.
If you want a good view, the most practical option is to position yourself early in an open area of the riverbed and avoid arriving right at the starting time.
2:00 pm – Mascletà in Plaza del Ayuntamiento
📍 Where to see it: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
🧨 Fireworks company: Valenciana
Even though the festival is approaching its final days, the mascletà remains one of the highlights of the day.
If this is your first full day during the Fallas, this event is almost the best introduction to the festival: you will quickly understand why in Valencia gunpowder is not only watched — it is also heard and felt.
3:30 pm – 1:00 am · Floral Offering to the Virgin of the Forsaken
📍 Where to see it: Historic centre and Plaza de la Virgen
⭐ Recommended viewing points: Calle de la Paz, San Vicente and Plaza de la Virgen
For many people, the Floral Offering is the most emotional event of the Fallas.
Thousands of falleras and falleros parade for hours wearing their traditional costumes and carrying bouquets of flowers to the Virgin of the Forsaken.
These flowers are used to create the large floral mantle that covers the statue in Plaza de la Virgen.
If you have never seen it before, it is impressive both because of the colour and beauty of the traditional clothing and because of the significance it has for the Fallas commissions.
On the 17th, the offering begins at 3:30 pm, and one of the parade entrances passes along Calle de la Paz.
Useful tips
If you want to watch it calmly, it is best to choose a point along the route and avoid moving too much once the parade begins.
Plaza de la Virgen is very special because you can see the final result of the floral mantle, but it is also usually the most crowded area.
If you prefer something more comfortable, Calle de la Paz offers a very good view of the parade.
12:00 am – Fireworks display
📍 Where to see it: Turia Garden
After the afternoon of the Floral Offering, gunpowder once again takes centre stage at night with another fireworks display.
It is one of those days when Valencia combines tradition, emotion and spectacle within just a few hours.
2:00 pm – Mascletà in Plaza del Ayuntamiento
📍 Where to see it: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
🧨 Fireworks company: Valenciana
The mascletà on the 18th arrives with the feeling that the end of the festival is very close.
The streets are packed, the city centre is buzzing and Valencia is preparing for one of the most important nights of the Fallas.
3:30 pm – 1:00 am · Floral Offering to the Virgin (second day)
📍 Where to see it: Historic centre and Plaza de la Virgen
⭐ Recommended viewing points: Calle de la Paz, San Vicente and Plaza de la Virgen
The Floral Offering continues on the 18th with new Fallas commissions and the same emotion as the day before.
Although it repeats, it is worth explaining again because for many visitors this will be the first day they see it.
The parade gathers thousands of people in traditional clothing and culminates in Plaza de la Virgen, where the floral mantle continues growing until it is almost complete.
It is one of the best events to understand the emotional and collective dimension of the Fallas.
11:59 pm – Nit del Foc
📍 Where to see it: Turia Garden, between Reino Bridge and Monteolivete Bridge (near Palau de les Arts)
The Nit del Foc is one of the most spectacular fireworks events of the entire festival.
If you were to choose only one night of fireworks, this would be one of the most recommended.
It is an especially powerful display, eagerly awaited by locals and visitors alike, and it usually attracts a very large crowd.
The best option is to arrive early, choose an open area along the riverbed and be prepared for large movements of people before and after the display.
19 March is the most important day of the Fallas and the moment when everything comes to its end.
11:00 am – Floral offering by the Fallas Queens of Valencia and their Courts of Honour
📍 Where to see it: Towards the Basilica / historic centre area
The morning of the 19th has a particularly symbolic character.
The highest representatives of the festival carry out their own floral offering in front of the image of the Patriarch on Puente de San José, bringing one of the most emotional parts of the Fallas calendar to a close.
12:00 pm – Solemn Mass in honour of Saint Joseph
📍 Where to see it: Valencia Cathedral
19 March is Saint Joseph’s Day, and therefore a solemn mass dedicated to the patron saint also takes place. It is one of the most traditional events of the day and forms part of the institutional and religious closing of the festival.
2:00 pm – Mascletà in Plaza del Ayuntamiento
📍 Where to see it: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
🧨 Fireworks company: Valenciana
The mascletà on 19 March is the final one of the Fallas and is often experienced with a mixture of excitement and nostalgia.
Although the format is the same, the context makes it a very special moment: it is the farewell to the daily sound of gunpowder that has accompanied the city for weeks.
7:00 pm – Fire Parade
📍 Where to see it: Calle de la Paz and the historic centre
The Fire Parade is the event that visually and symbolically announces that the night of the Cremà has arrived. It is a parade with fire, visual effects, a festive atmosphere and plenty of energy, and it begins at 7:00 pm on Calle de la Paz. If you would like to see something different before the fallas are set alight, this is a very good plan.
8:00 pm – Cremà of the children’s fallas
📍 Where to see it: Throughout the city
The Cremà is the final act of the Fallas: the moment when the monuments are burned and everything that has been built over months disappears in a single night. The children’s fallas are burned first. For anyone seeing it for the first time, it is especially striking, as it combines emotion, fire, music, firefighters and an expectant silence just before the monument is lit.
8:30 pm – Cremà of the first-prize children’s falla in the Special Section
📍 Where to see it: At the location of the prize-winning falla
After the general cremà of the children’s fallas, the children’s falla that has won first prize in the Special Section is also burned. It is one of the most eagerly awaited moments.
9:00 pm – Cremà of the municipal children’s falla
📍 Where to see it: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
If you would like to watch a cremà that is very central and easy to find, the municipal children’s falla is an excellent option.
10:00 pm – Cremà of all fallas
📍 Where to see it: Throughout the city
From this time onwards, the large fallas begin to burn in every neighbourhood across the city. At this point, it depends on how you would like to experience it: you can choose to stay by a specific falla that you particularly liked, or look for a central area. It is best to decide in advance, as getting around the city becomes more difficult that night.
10:30 pm – Cremà of the first-prize falla in the Special Section
📍 Where to see it: At the location of the prize-winning falla
This is one of the most eagerly awaited moments of the night, as one of the most important monuments of the year is burned.
11:00 pm – Cremà of the municipal falla
📍 Where to see it: Plaza del Ayuntamiento
The final great image of the Fallas comes with the cremà of the municipal falla in Plaza del Ayuntamiento. It is the official closing of the festival and one of those moments that stays with you: after days of gunpowder, flowers, music and monuments, Valencia says goodbye to the Fallas until the following year.
Enjoy the Fallas with Turia Hotels
If you’re staying with us during these days, you’ll be just a short distance from the city centre and able to move easily around Valencia to enjoy the mascletà, the floral offering or the spectacular fireworks displays.
Our team will be happy to share recommendations so you can experience the Fallas like a true Valencian.
Enjoy the festival!
