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This is no doubt one of the most visited tourist regions in Spain. The area includes the Mountain region of Castellon, on the coast of which resort towns are situated, Valencia, with its beautiful lagoon and graceful celebrations and festivals, also Alicante, faceted with eternal rocks.
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In three provinces, that are included into this region, there is a great number of places of breathtaking beauty, a real delight for the senses. The fairy walled-towns of Morella, Peniscola (Peñíscola), Xátiva, Guadalest and Sagunto. Charming waterfalls of Salto de la Novia and Fuentes Del Algar. The medieval streets of the town of Bocairent, the blue-domed church in Altea, Penyal d'Ifac (Peñón de Ifach) natural park in Calpe with the rock upwarding to the sky, which is ready to leave the Earth. Romantic and virgin islands of Tabarca and Columbretes. Natural parks, which are opened near the unforgettable natural objects: Hokes Del Cabriel, where, as if for luck, flows the same name, horseshoe shaped river; named after the mountain, Sierra Calderona; and the natural park of Albufera with the largest lake in Spain. Some of the holidays in Valencia have much in common with Russian ones, but differ in its grand style, and staginess.
Thus, during the festival of Las Fallas, that is the "Spanish Carnival", fireworks explode in the sky over Valencia, with thousands of colors. Fallas is known all over the world and is celebrated from 15 to 19 March. At this time, a parade of huge puppets, made of papier-mache takes place, and then these puppets are burned in the bonfire. And in the town of San Juan, Alicante Province, the Festival of Ogeras de San Juan (an analogue of Ivan Kupala), is celebrated on June, 24, during of which young people jump over the bonfires, started on the town beaches. The festival of music, color and magic - this is what the night of fireworks in Castell de l'Olla is, when a marvelous pyrotechnic show of fireworks is presented in honor of St. Lorenzo, illuminating all the bay of Altea with its light.
On the second Saturday in August, when the clock strikes twelve o’clock, more than 1,000 kilograms of fireworks go up to the sky.
Within half an hour, against the background of a starry sky in Althea, different lights play, now revealing by the magnificent peacock's tail, and then forming different shapes, in order to fall with a sparkling rain and go out in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This performance is worth living for!
The celebration of Moors and Christians (Moros y Cristianos) in Alcoy is not less exciting, when to the sounds of drums and trumpet a theatrical show of townspeople, who are dressed in gorgeous costumes of the Moors and Christians, takes place around the city, recreating by this the colour of the era; in such a way the history comes alive, and the people in the city welcome spring.
Of course, Valencia is a paradise between the sea and the land.
A map of Valencia