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Next: 17 to 18 Mar 2027

Fallas flower offering

For two days, Valencians in traditional dress carry carnations to build a cloak for the Virgin.

Falla del Ayuntamiento de Valencia de 2019. Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, España.
Photo: Falconaumanni, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What happens

The Fallas of Valencia are known for fire, but on 17 and 18 March the festival turns to flowers. In the Ofrenda, tens of thousands of falleras and falleros walk in procession to the Plaza de la Virgen, each carrying a bunch of carnations. There a tall wooden frame holds a figure of the Virgin of the Forsaken, the city's patron. Climbers take the bunches and fit them into the frame by colour, so that over two days her cloak grows into a pattern of red, white and pink.

The flowers

CarnationCarnations in set colours, which form the pattern of the cloak.BouquetEach walker carries one bunch to hand over.
About this page

Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Fallas" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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