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RE: Turning Smoke Into Art - The Valencia Mascleta - Daylight Fireworks
I went to 3 mascletàs (only). You guys defeat me by far, haha.
Did you note people more packed this year? As you may know, for safety reasons, police kept a lot of extra space and created evacuation lanes this year. This caught my attention the first days, but don't know how it worked the last days.
Luckily (and miraculously, given the amount of people and "organized"chaos) nothing happened. I always thought that valencian police and firefighters are among the best prepared in the world for this situations because they train every year with Fallas.
BTW... Excellent pictures as usual. And reading your lines, you totally captured the essence of mascletàs.
This was our first Mascleta after Barcelona! We noticed the changes as well. In fact they closed down the route we prefer to get to the main plaza. They even talked about handing out tickets up front to only let in a certain amount of people into the plaza. I never felt unsafe during Fallas, thanks to the Valencians who know how to behave in a crowd. Do you live in VLC?
Yes, I live in a town next to Valencia.
Tickets? Really? We might end seeing this one day, but it would kill the essence of mascletàs. My bag was checked by a policeman before entering a metro station. First time it happens to me as well. Was kind of relief because I always thought there was "no control" to some crazy people taking 'bombs' or similar to metro or to outside crowds. I mean, I always trust the police doing their job, but maybe this year was the first we noticed so clearly after Barcelona.
Oh .. we did 4 Fallas so we went to over 120 Mascletas ... not counting the ones outside of Fallas! :)
Haha, your average is amazing. I just go to 3 or 4 every year, maybe 6 o 7.
For us ... we have to see all :) But we live pretty close to Ayuntamiento, so sitting at home or going there ... it's almost the same :)
So lucky!! It could only get better if you live in one of the buildings in the Plaza! :)