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In Pictures: Spain's Fallas festival returns after pandemic pause

Valencia's Fallas festival wrapped up with fireworks and the burning of colourful sculptures on Sunday after returning to the eastern Spanish city following a pandemic-induced hiatus.

Madrid

Inside the explosive gunpowder-filled work of the Prado's first ever artist-in-residence

The smell of gunpowder still lingered in Madrid's Prado museum on Tuesday, just hours after China's Cai Guo-Qiang, famed for his explosive art, put the finishing touch to an exhibition inspired by Spain's greats.

Culture

Las Fallas: Valencia’s fire festival granted Unesco heritage status

Valencia’s colourful, noisy and explosive annual celebration of Las Fallas has been inscribed on Unesco’s ‘intangible heritage’ list.

King Juan Carlos

Row over King Juan Carlos sex-act sculpture

A controversial sculpture of former king Juan Carlos of Spain being sodomized has finally gone on display in Barcelona.

valencia

Las Fallas: Red hot satire at explosive spring fiesta

This week will see the noisy finale of Las Fallas in Valencia when hundreds of satirical scupltures will go up in flames to celebrate the start of Spring.

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Valencia goes up in flames for Las Fallas

Valencia celebrated the end of its annual Las Fallas festival on Wednesday night with the dramatic annual burning of the festival sculptures, known as La Cremà.

Angela Merkel

Pic of the day: Merkel piggybacks Spain's PM

Out of all the impressive paper-maché statues built for this year's emblematic Fallas festival in Valencia, one stands out for its degree of political satire and wit.