DAY 1: Barcelona

Private transfer from Barcelona airport to the hotel in Barcelona.
Leisure time to enjoy the city. Shopping could be your first option or you could watch a football game.

Overnight at the hotel in Barcelona.

DAY 2: Barcelona

Breakfast at the hotel.

Barcelona sightseeing based on a hop on-hop off bus.

Highlights of the two different tours are:

• The gothic cathedral, which has always been the heart of the city, located in the very downtown and flanked by the remains of the city walls.
• The Olympic Barcelona, is spread all over the city. on the one hand the Olympic port and the Olympic village are located on the Barceloneta, on the other hand the Olympic ring and the stadiums are located on the Montjuïc Hill.
• Sagrada Familia, Gaudi’s greatest work and undoubtedly Barcelona’s most identifiable monument and Montjuïc Hill, a dominant feature of the city’s skyline.
• Passeig de Gràcia, with the highest concentration of modernist buildings in the city.
• Among others, enjoy an outside view of Antoni Gaudi’s Casa Batlló and Casa Milà.

Overnight at the hotel in Barcelona.

DAY 3: Barcelona / Valencia

Breakfast at the hotel and check out.

Private transfer from the hotel to Barcelona train station to take the train to Valencia.

Transfer from Valencia train station to the hotel.

Valencia sightseeing based on a hop on- hop off bus.

Take the first day to go on the historic route, visiting Plaza de la Reina, Valencia’s History Museum, Congress Palace, and much more. Start enjoying your Fallas experience seeing some of the statues already shown across the streets of the city. Fallas is a traditional celebration held in commemoration of Saint Joseph in the city of Valencia. The term Fallas (or Falles in Valencian) refers to both, the celebration and the figures burnt during the celebration. a number of towns in the Valencian community have similar celebrations inspired by the original Fallas de Valencia celebration. Each neighbourhood of the city has an organised group of people and an own space to meet and organize, the Casal Faller. they work all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners, usually featuring the famous Valencian dish, paella, a specialty of the region. Each commission, also known as a comissió fallera produces a construction known as Falla, which is eventually burnt.

Overnight at the hotel in Valencia.

DAY 4: Valencia

Breakfast at the hotel.

Valencia sightseeing based on a hop on- hop off bus.

On this second day, go on to explore the maritime route. See the City of Arts and Sciences, the Fallas Museum, Plaza de Toros, la Marina Real, and more.

After lunch, about 14h, don’t miss the Mascletà, daily fireworks all the month of March. The Mascletà is an explosive barrage of coordinated firecracker and fireworks displays and takes place in each neighbourhood at 14h every day of the festival, where the pyro-technicians compete for the honour of providing the final Mascletà of the fiestas (on 19 March). At 14h the clock chimes and the Fallera Mayor, dressed in her Fallera finery, will call from the balcony of city hall “senyor pirotècnic, pot començar la Mascletà!” (“mr. pyrotechnic, you may commence the Mascletà!”), and the Mascletà begins. The Mascletà is almost unique in the Valencian community, and very popular within the Valencian people. Smaller neighbourhoods often hold their own Mascletà for saint’s days, weddings and other celebrations.

Overnight at the hotel in Valencia.

DAY 5: Valencia

Breakfast at the hotel.

Today the Fallas activity is the Ofrenda de las Flores a la Virgen de los Desamparados (flowers offering to the
virgin of the helpless). In this event, the flower offering, each of the Fallera commissions brings an offering of flowers to the Virgin Mary as our lady of the forsaken. this occurs all day between 17–18 March. A statue of the Virgin Mary and its large pedestal are then covered with all the flowers. Overnight at the hotel in Valencia.

DAY 6: Valencia

Breakfast at the hotel.

Take you morning for leisure (enter the museums you like, or visit the Oceanogràfic. You could also visit Mestalla stadium, home of Valencia CF).

After lunch, enjoy the second day of flower offering, and the Nit del Foc (spectacular fireworks night).In the nights of the 15, 16, 17, and 18th March there are firework displays in the old riverbed in Valencia. each night is progressively grander and the last is called La Nit del Foc (the night of the fire).

Overnight at the hotel in Valencia.

DAY 7: Valencia

Breakfast at the hotel.

The great day has come! you can take your morning for shopping or rest, to prepare yourself for La Nit de la Cremà, where the winner statues are announced and the other ones are burned to celebrate the end of the event. On the final night of the Fallas, around midnight on March 19 these Fallas are burnt as huge bonfires. This is known as La Cremà (the burning), the climax of the whole event, and the reason why the constructions are called Falles in Valencian (“torches”). traditionally, the Falla in the Plaça de l’Ajuntament is burned last. Many neighbourhoods have a Falla Infantil (a children’s Falla, smaller and without satirical themes), which is shown a few metres away from the main one and is burnt first, at 22h. the main neighbourhood Fallas are burnt closer to midnight. Each Falla is loaded with fireworks which are lit first. the construction itself is lit either after or during the explosion of these fireworks. Fallas burn quite quickly, and the heat given off is felt by everyone around. The heat from the larger ones often drives the crowd back a couple of metres, even though they are already behind barriers that the fire brigade has set several metres from the construction. Away from the Fallas, people frolic in the streets, the whole city resembles an open-air dance party. there are stalls selling products such as the typical fried snacks porres, xurros and bunyols, as well as roasted chestnuts or trinkets.

Overnight at the hotel in Valencia.

DAY 8: Valencia

Breakfast at the hotel and check out.

Departure transfer to airport.

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