Valencia is in its week of fiestas at the moment called Fallas. Here in Spain we don’t bother with a bank holiday on a Monday, if a holiday is there to be enjoyed then it has to occupy a much longer time period, think about the upcoming Feria de Abril in Sevilla, last week’s Carnival in the Canary Islands, the Magdalena in Castellon in the next couple of weeks and a whole host of others that exist in every small town, village and large city in Spain.
