On one hand, there's a small effigy, barely over a meter tall, of the current president of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, who, when he looks in a mirror, sees the image of his predecessor, Carlos Mazón, and not his own. On the other, there's a gigantic figure of an enchanting odalisque, a captivating magician, or a sardonic pirate presiding over a monumental falla, but whose connection to current events is as tenuous as fog. These two possibilities—a work critical and engaged with its time, and a construction that merely aspires to impress with its aesthetic appeal—represent the two sides of a festival with almost 300 years of history, a festival that has been an instrument of popular expression and social protest, but which those in power have sought to tame.

The commuter trains on lines C1 and C2, which connect the city of Valencia with the southern regions of the province, will not arrive at the Nord station – the main and most central station – during the hours of mascletàs of the Fallas festival with the aim of avoiding crowds from this Saturday until March 19, the day of the Fallas festival. burns of the monuments.

The government says the spelling mistakes on the school vouchers distributed these days are the fault of the "subcontracted company" and that it "will not reprint them." Let's review them, first of all. There's one that I'd like to believe is a typo. Comergos by shops. Although on the keyboard the G is very far from the Ç. The second one also seems typographical. Where it should say adhered says acherits. C and D are close. The other two are major errors. Exchanges by Redeem them. Here the author doesn't understand anything about the language he's writing in. He doesn't understand that a pronoun exists. And we also find a you will find which should have an accent: you will find. That mistake is incomprehensible. No proofreader can overlook any of these four botched jobs, unless, of course, they're not a philologist or a Catalan speaker. On a computer, any robot can underline these words for you.

It was inevitable. The DANA tragedy of October 29, which claimed 228 lives in the Valencian Community alone, is the focus of the 2025 Fallas. Many commissions have created figures depicting that fateful day. Particularly prominent was the head of the Consell (Consell), Carlos Mazón, who was caricatured as the ultimate representative of the Generalitat's inaction.

Neither in the Call nor in the first mascleta. Carlos Mazón is not being seen at the Fallas, the most beloved and universal festival of the Valencians, declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2016. He was not at the traditional event that opens the festival last Sunday or this Saturday at the first mascleta, two of the highlights of the Fallas calendar. In the agenda of the Valencian president for this Saturday, Mazón had not planned any event, which already made it clear that he would not be on the balcony of Valencia City Hall to see the first mascleta of the Fallas. The event brought together thousands of people in the square, some of whom shouted slogans against the popular leader, such as "Mazón resign" and "Murderer", and displayed banners and posters with slogans such as "20.11, neither forget nor forgive", referring to the time when the alarm was sent for the flood.

The torrential rains that have fallen in recent hours in the Valencian Country have forced emergency teams to make overnight numerous rescues of vehicles trapped in the water. In addition, in the case of cities such as Valencia, it has caused damage and destruction in some fallas that were in the last night of plantà.