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The Falles, or in spanish Las Fallas, is an internationally known fire celebration in Valencia, which was this week. It is a Valencian traditional celebration in praise of Saint Joseph. Every citizen in Valencia works and prepares himself for this few days of festivity with the biggest enthusiasm man can have for this tradition. It is being held between the 14^th and the 19^th of March mainly in the city of Valencia, where for example on Thursday they have burned 772 monuments, specially built for this occasion. All of this monuments, called Ninots represent actual themes with a satire point of politics, comedy and social life, some of the Ninots can get up to 30 m high and are exposed until their burning. The party goes continuously from one morning to the other during the 5 days surrounded by fireworks, massive amount of firecrackers and the smell to gunpowder.

On 4th of November the last round in the 2007 Motorbike Grand Prix Championships is to be held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia. The circuit is 30 minutes west of the city of Valencia and there are expected to be up to 150,000 spectators to watch the five-time World Champion Valentino Rossi trying to reclaim his title from Nicky Hayden on the four kilometre anti clockwise circuit. This race in Valencia means sun, fun and a lot of racing. So don´t miss the last Moto GP in Valencia, either direct or at least on TV. The race starts at 1:15 PM. Read more »