The
2020
fallas
are already ash.
The purifying fire of the
cremà
finished them a year and a half later than planned.
The
Covid
pandemic
froze the party, put a very long pause in which survival has been achieved with great difficulty.
The Fallas world has shown resilience, but it needed that, even if it was extemporaneously, in a hot September, that cycle of 2020 was closed with fire.
They have not been a typical failures. Not even time has respected them, sending a DANA that damaged monuments and kept more than one commission in suspense. There have been no
mascletaes
in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, no rivers of people in the streets, and no mass offering. Party yes, restrained in acts, decentralized by the neighborhoods of the city and atypical. As much as a
cremà
at sunset.
The restrictions have forced to adapt the traditions. The curfew in force from one o'clock in the morning forced a
cremà
without nighttime. The bust of La Meditadora, the municipal fault that became a symbol of the pandemic in March 2020, burned at 11 p.m. almost alone, in a Town Hall Square closed to the public four hours earlier. It was the last to do so, as if its motto
Açò també passarà
(This too shall pass) marks the beginning of the end of a pandemic that has transformed everything. The reign of
Consuelo Llobell
and
Carla García
has also passed
, the Falleras Mayores de Valencia of 2020 and 2021, who could not contain their tears, a mixture of sadness for all that the Covid has stolen from them and of joy, for being able to close their stage watching their failures burn.
At that time the embers of the Special Winning Fault, of the Jerusalem Convent commission, were smoking, and all the monuments of the city had already been reduced to ashes, which began to burn at eight in the afternoon.
First the children's ones, then the main ones.
The
pardoned ninots
were saved
, both from the commission of Almirante Cadarso, and part of the fault planted by Duke of Gaeta-Pobla de Farnals, which represented a mosque and was handed over to the Muslim community.
Ximo Puig and Joan Ribó, in the cremà of the municipal child failure.EFE
With the fire already start the Fallas of 2022, which hope to return to the streets in March, with enough immunity to be celebrated again in splendor.
The first great act will be on October 13, when the
Falleras Mayores
de Valencia
are elected
.
What will the Fallas of 2022 be like?
The great unknown is whether the Fallas will be the same again. Exactly the same. For now, some changes have already pleased. Among them, decentralizing events such as the
mascletà
or the
Nit del Foc
by neighborhoods. Mayor
Joan Ribó
has been in favor of maintaining some of the changes. "Decentralizing some fireworks in the neighborhoods is a good option, an option that ultimately brings the Fallas closer to the districts and neighborhoods of Valencia and that I think is a positive approach," he said. The decision will be made by the Central Fallera Board (JCF). "But I personally like this idea because ultimately Valencia is its neighborhoods," he added.
What Ribó also highlighted is that he does not believe that there will be an
increase in infections as
a result of these parties.
"We are having a good time, we are having fun but at the same time we are fundamentally respecting the coronavirus regulations, which is a regulation that, it must be said once again, protects ourselves, our family and everyone in the first place" .
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