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Campaign to document the 2025 Falla monuments in Valencia
More than 2000 photos related to the festival were uploaded to Commons
ETNO, the Valencian Museum of Ethnology, organized a Wiki Takes Fallas on Sunday March the 16th, with help from Amical Wikimedia and Wikimedia España. The aim was to photographically document the maximum number of Falla monuments. About twenty volunteers, most of them from Valencia, but also from Barcelona and Madrid, participated in the photographic safari throughout the morning, divided into five routes. The final result can be seen in the category Wiki Loves Falles 2025 by Commons, with a total of 2048 photographs uploaded. Have a look at them!
The work focused on the city of Valencia, where the Fallas monuments from 164 different commissions were documented (there are more than 350 in the whole city), including all the main ones. In previous years the maximum number of documented monuments was around 40. One of the routes also moved through some of the nearby villages affected by the flooding last autumn, such as Paiporta and Benetússer, photographing eight fallas. In addition to the monuments, the wikipedian volunteers also uploaded other pictures related to the festival, such as pyrotechnic spectacles or traditional sweets, that are now also documented in Commons. In addition, the photographs uploaded within this campaign are also part of the international Wiki Loves Folklore contest, which closed on March 31st.
Fallas are held on the occasion of Saint Joseph and since 2016 are included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity of UNESCO. The monuments are build in the streets and can be admired for five days, but they are finally burned on the night of March 19th.
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Some of the volunteers who participated in the Wiki Takes Falles. Photo: Ponscor CC BY 4.0 -
One of the falla monuments built in this last edition of the festival. Photo: Rafa Esteve CC BY 4.0
