Similarly, the second prize went to Pottery Zaragozano, who shot 13 on the day, according to the Pamplona City Council in a statement.

 
 
This award, granted by the council and Pamplona with a prize of seven thousand euros and the trophy Meteor, has been awarded for his “extraordinary collection of fire in Valencia just over 20 minutes and will be delivered, as is traditional, Sanfermines during 2010.

 
 
The second award, endowed with four thousand dollars and a trophy awarded by Diario de Navarra, has fallen in the collection Zaragozano Pyrotechnics fired on Monday, July 13.

    The explosion happened in the eastern city of Muridke in Punjab province, causing the number of injuries mentioned, who were taken to nearby hospitals for medical care, according to reports from the private TV channel DAWN NEWS.

Five people who worked on fireworks shows for Independence Day died in explosions, including four in a single explosion that rocked this remote town in the islands of the Outer Banks.
The fifth died after an explosion at a fireworks show in Pennsylvania, police said.

Photo :eleraldo.hn (Manila Filioinas 29.01.09)

The Winners of the Competition of Pyro Artists

Winner of the EDDA in gold

Francisco „Kiko“ Martinez Gomis and theFocs dÁrtifici Europlá Team
(Spain)

Winner of the EDDA in silverCai, Liu, Yang and Zeng and the Liuyang Dancing Fireworks Team
(China)

Winner of the EDDA in bronze

Kiyoshi Kitahara
and the Tamaya Kitahara Fireworks Team
(Japan)

Photos: feuerwerksfotos.de und PYROMUSIKALE

Creativity EDDA for outstanding artistic creativity and innovation

Antonio Scarpato
and Pirotecnica Scarpato
(Italy)

Audience EDDA on Friday

Kiyoshi Kitahara
and the Tamaya Kitahara Fireworks Team
(Japan)

Audience EDDA on Saturday

Cai, Liu, Yang and Zeng and the Liuyang Dancing Fireworks Team
(China)

Video: fireworks show of Antonio Scarpato, Italy

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Despertá

* Most of the streets in the city are closed to everything but pedestrian traffic and it is difficult to get around. The best way to get around is either by walking or taking the public transportation. Driving a car is not a good idea.
* Most of the restaurants are very crowded and some are not open. There is usually very long waits and slow service and you should plan for this in your schedule.
* Most of the hotels are also very crowded and should be booked in advance.
* Many people throw fireworks near pedestrians and its very easy to get burnt or injured.
* Some of the fallas like Nou Campanar are well outside the city center and are quite far by foot, it is much easier to take a bus.Sot de Chera, Xátiva, Sagunto, among others.

The fire ritual

As a festival for all the senses, the Fallas culminate with the “Cremà”, or burning of all the monuments, on 19th March. This fire ritual consumes a whole year of work, a whole year of dreams. At ten o’clock the children’s fallas are set to the torch, amidst music and fireworks. At midnight, Valencia astonishes the entire world each year by burning its street monuments to ashes, ending with the fallas in the “special section”, whose budgetsare in the range of 400.000 euros  each. Throughout the city fireworks are set off and the flames consume the gigantic figurines as onlookers stand in silence, with eyes reflecting the red flames, amid crackling red-hot wood and showeringsparks and thick smoke.

Valencia is enveloped in a weird reddish-grey gloom, yet the music still plays, and more than a few eyes shed tears as the last farewells are said to the monumental spring offering. This wholesale incineration culminates in the burning of the main falla in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, much to the surprise of both national and European television channels, whose announcers always seem to ask “how is this possible – so much time and energy all gone up in smoke?”. This is simply yet another traditional quirk of the Valencians, channelling their craftsmanship into an event of international status; people who are in love with aesthetics, beauty, fireworks and music; people who outdo the ancient Greeks and Romans in pageantry; people who see the ironic side of life through their “ninots” yet allow the flames to consume them in a homage to spring.

The fire ritual

Following the night of 19th March, after having sown the sky with silvery palm trees, with fountains of gold and fuchsia, with blue hearts and rich red flowers, and after the signs of fire have been washed away from the asphalt, and the silence of normality reigns once again, Valencia wakes upto a new morning and already starts thinking about the fallas it willbuild the coming spring. It’s spring renewal with a style of its own.

The Fallas Generalitat Valenciana photos: ciberfallas.com

Pedro Santaeulalia, with his project "Falles? o Treballes?".

As regards the largest monument, Pedro Santaeulalia show us on this occasion his project “Falles? o Treballes?”. The design is this and his brother will be on everyone who works in the world of fallas.

Two main figures representing two of our party classic professions, a bunyolera and a coheter “rocket” to reach the finish 20 meters in height. I accompany two children, a symbol of the future of fallas, which are enjoying chocolate and buñuelos.

The different scenes with 40 ninots we show how the month of March arrives and the town prepares to celebrate their big festival, the fallas and neighbors and enjoy Falleros are available on the street. Both make it possible to take as long as possible.

So enjoy all that the fallas are offered: Monuments of ephemeral art, music, fireworks, food, beauty, environment, street, etc … to everyone. Everyone? No, not all. There are others who, on the contrary, those days are devoted to work.

the sketch "Falles o Treballes?"

Yes, and not to work as usual, not every day. Are prepared to do hours and hours to attend the festival, to make it possible to give the rest living and entertainment. People who work daily so that all can enjoy the fallas as participants or spectators.

From artists and artisans, workers fallas, fireworks, musicians, policemen, firemen, cleaning services, civil protection, caterers, waiters, hairdressers, florists, editors of temporary facilities, lighting and sound carriers, crane technical services public transport, food handlers, to bunyoleres, and many others.

the sketch "Falles o Treballes?"

Translated with google translator Ciberfallas.com

Spanish Language:

“Falles o Treballes?”

Por lo que respecta al monumento mayor, Pedro Santaeulalia nos presenta en esta ocasión su proyecto “Falles? o Treballes?”. El diseño corresponde a su hermano Josete Santaeulalia y versará sobre todo aquel que trabaja en el mundo de las fallas.

the sketch "Falles o Treballes?"

Dos figuras principales que representan a dos profesiones clásicas de nuestra fiesta, una bunyolera y un coheter, rematarán la falla que alcanzará 20 metros de altura. Les acompañarán dos niños, símbolo del futuro de las fallas, que se encuentran degustando el chocolate y los buñuelos.

Las diferentes escenas contarán con 40 ninots que nos mostrarán como llega el mes de marzo y la ciudad se prepara para celebrar su fiesta grande, las fallas, y los vecinos y falleros se disponen a disfrutar en la calle. Unos y otros hacen lo posible por sacar el mayor tiempo posible.

the sketch "Falles o Treballes?"

Así disfrutan de todo aquello que las fallas les ofrecen: monumentos de arte efímero, música, fuegos artificiales, gastronomía, belleza, ambiente, pasacalles, etcétera…al alcance de todos. ¿Todos? No, todos no. Hay otros que, por el contrario, se dedican esos días a trabajar.

Sí, a trabajar y no como siempre, no como todos los días. Se preparan para hacer horas y horas para atender a la fiesta, para hacerla posible, para facilitar al resto la convivencia y el entretenimiento. Gente que trabaja diariamente para que todos pueden disfrutar de las fallas como participantes o espectadores.

Desde artistas y artesanos, trabajadores de las fallas, pirotécnicos, músicos, policías, bomberos, servicios de limpieza, protección civil, restauradores, camareros, peluqueros, floristas, montadores de instalaciones provisionales, de luces y sonido, transportistas, técnicos de grúa, servicios de transporte público, manipuladores de alimentos, hasta bunyoleres, y muchos otros

the sketch "Falles o Treballes?"

Castillo Photo:Josep V. Zaragoza

Valencia is a land of pyrotechnics. There is barely an event held in this region, whether public or private, a popular celebration or a simple family meeting, that isn’t accompanied by the noise and smell of gunpowder.

The Fallas, as the prime example of a popular Valencian fiesta, has a highly varied programme of fireworks displays: from daytime “mascletàs” (see the section referring to them) to ever-more creative and exciting pyrotechnical shows taking place at night, starting from the 15th March, in the old Turia riverbed; specifically, between the Puente de la Exposición – called “La Peineta” (The Comb) by locals – and the Puente de las Flores.

The most spectacular and best-known of all these is the “Nit del Foc” (literally “Night of Fire”), the best example of the intensity that can be reached combining light, colour and explosions. This tremendous pyrotechnical festival takes place on the night between the 18th and the 19th March and acts as a preamble to the main day of the Fallas.

fallas from Valencia

Nit del Foc

"despertà"

Although written in Valencian, the term is quite explicit: the “despertà” refers to the act of waking up the neighbourhood. How? Very simple: by setting off hundreds of firecrackers first thing in the morning. The “Falleros” come out into the streets at dawn, armed with a kind of local firecracker known as “tró de bac”, which has no fuse and is set off by throwing it at the ground, making a very loud bang.

This is a celebration that increasingly enjoys the participation of people unaffiliated with the commissions and which takes place in a permanent atmosphere of fun and noise.

"despertà"

Fire is the fiesta’s symbolic spirit and the Fallas final destination. So this parade is an exhibition of the varied rites and displays from around the world which, use fire as a basic feature.

This is a colourful, noisy event, with floats, giant mechanisms, people in costumes, rockets, gunpowder, street performances, music… All at nightfall, as the time approaches for the “Ninots” (sculptures) to be consumed by flames.