14/03/2011 12:00 (UTC)
SPAIN TRADITIONS FALLAS
VALENCIA (SPAIN) 14/3/2011.- View of the 'ninot' that represent Spanish missionary Vicente Ferre sourounded by children maden by Pedro Rodriguez Marin that has won the Child Exempt Ninot -and not will be bunrt on 19 March during the Fallas Fest- in Valencia, eastern Spain, on 14 March 2011. Ninot is the name given to the huge papier-mache, cardboard and wooden sculptures depicting politicians and other well-known public figures which, amidst a deafening display of fireworks, are put on bonfires and set alight during the last day of the event, by members of competing groups, or falleros, who will have spent the previous year creating and building them. EFE/Manuel Bruque
