After two years without being held due to the pandemic, and after being postponed for 24 hours due to a storm, the traditional Valencian Fault returned tonight in the city of Mar del Platawith the burning of a structure over eight meters high, inspired on this occasion by children’s stories.
The structure, called “Tales That Tell Tales”burned again after two years without celebration, to fulfill the symbolic objective of the traditional Valencian ceremony: “Leave everything negative or bad reflected in images, and through the fire cleanse a new year”.
A princess locked in her tower, a pirate, a Pinocchio and a dwarf from Snow White were some of the “ninots”, the typical dolls that formed the bonfire, designed this year by the artist Adrián Mas Reyes.
In this edition, the organizers also placed a mailbox in which hundreds of people deposited messages and also chinstraps that they no longer used, to symbolize that the pandemic that for two years forced the Valencian celebrations to be suspended is left behind.
The ceremony had originally been scheduled for Saturday night, but a storm of wind and rain that affected the city forced the organizers to postpone it for a day.
