Fireworks from Valencia.

[BeornWulfWer]

To the moderators: My apologies if this thread is not where you deem it correct.I saw art and this is like an art

Insane Fireworks In Valencia Spain - YourDailyMedia.com



My God that has to be the loudest and most smokiest fireworks display i have ever seen.
Is this what it's like in Spain?

[svin]

I saw similiar video about explosion at Danish fireworks factory.

One man died.

Here it is:

+ YouTube Video

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by BeornWulfWer

My God that has to be the loudest and most smokiest fireworks display i have ever seen.
Is this what it's like in Spain?

No. It is what it's like in the lands of Valencia.

That video is from a mascletá (from masclet, "little male", a type of firecracker).

Another mascletá in Borriol, a small town:

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A less known tradition is the cordá (from corda, "rope", which was used to delimit the area where people were inside with the fireworks), in the town of Paterna:

+ YouTube Video

The new laws require that they are done in a cage, and that people are not allowed in without a number of items of protection.

[Menydh]

By the way, we do consider the Fallas both a festivity and an art. A popular art.

A 19th century English writer, after a visit to Valencia's Fallas wrote that the Valencians are crazy artists, because they make beautiful monuments (with cardboard and wood) during one entire year, and then they set them all on fire in one night.