It is an event where, if you head to the Town Hall Square or nearby streets, you will enjoy the music bands and the colourful traditional costumes of falleras and falleros in a lively parade towards the City Hall stand to collect their prizes. 

The Fallas are a festival of International Tourist Interest for many reasons, including the spectacular nature of the monuments: around 800 enormous works of art, both large and children’s ones, displayed in the streets of Valencia during Fallas week.

800 ephemeral monuments —let’s not forget they are burned on 19 March every year— in which specialised artists pour all their creativity into shaping them and giving them meaning.

This great work, which starts from scratch each year, is rewarded with prizes for the best monuments. The Fallas monument in the Town Hall Square is the exception, as it is not part of the competition since it represents the entire city and all Valencians.

With such a large number of Fallas, you may be wondering whether all the commissions compete on equal terms.

The truth is that they do not; they are divided into categories called sections, ordered from the Special Section, which includes those with the largest budgets and scale, followed by First A, First B, Second A, Second B, Third A… up to 20 different sections! 

And the prizes are also awarded by category, of course.

Special Section Fallas

1. First prize: Falla Convento Jerusalén
2. Second prize: Falla L'antiga de Campanar
3. Third prize: Falla Na Jordana

Section 1A Fallas

1. First prize: Falla Espartero
2. Second prize: Falla Maestro Gonzalbo
3. Third prize: Falla Ciscar Borriana

Children's Fallas Awards 2026

1. First prize: Falla Espartero-Ramón y Cajal
2. Second prize: Falla Convento Jerusalén
3. Third prize: Falla Maestro Gonzalbo-Comte d'Altea

As you might imagine, the awards ceremony is a major event that the commissions experience with great excitement. To collect their prizes, they parade from their neighbourhood dressed in traditional costumes to the Town Hall Square to receive the prize banner, accompanied by music bands.

In short, the streets become a parade of excitement.

On 16 March at 16:30, at the stand set up in Town Hall Square, the prizes for children’s fallas in the different sections are awarded, as well as prizes for children’s presentations, the Ninot Parade and children’s llibrets.

And on 17 March at 09:00, at the same location, the awards ceremony takes place for the main fallas in the different sections, as well as the competitions for illuminated streets, presentations and llibrets.

After passing by the stand, the fallas commissions return to their casal proudly displaying their banners. There they place them on the monument so everyone can admire their achievements.

Join the excitement of the commissions and visit as many as you can, as these are very special days.