With the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag, but also with the colors of the Senyera, the Tamarit de Alfarrasí fireworks have colored the sky of Valencia this Tuesday in its mascletà, which it has conceived as an anti-war and solidarity tribute to the first anniversary of the Russian invasion.
The mascletà, with 172 kilos of pyrotechnic material, began with a Valencian firecracker that gave way to a sequence of digitized ground thunderclaps and flags, followed by the sound of sirens and aerial thunderclaps.
Five phases of terrestrial thunder have been increasing their rhythm and power until merging into a final terrestrial earthquake with four phases and an aerial bombardment.
“We want to dedicate it to the Valencian people for all the help they have given to the Ukrainian people”, highlighted the pyrotechnician Daniel Tamarit, who alluded to the “special bond” that his company has with Ukraine.
Specifically, he explained that his partner’s wife is Ukrainian and that, when the war broke out, “he caught them there for his daughter’s wedding.”
About shooting in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, he has considered that it is “a very special place” and has explained that he has designed the shot so that all the fire is distributed throughout the square so that “everyone can enjoy it”.
It is not the first mascletà of a solidarity nature that Tamarit has planned, which in 2020 had planned to premiere in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de València with a shot dedicated to Chernobyl, which had to be suspended due to the wind days before the total cancellation of the Fallas because of the pandemic.
This anti-war plea was seen by the thousands of attendees at this show, but also by the guests on the balcony of the Town Hall, who on Tuesday included the promoter of the ‘I’m older, not an idiot’ campaign, Carlos San Juan, the president and the Valencia CF men’s squad and the Valencia Basket men’s team.
The Chief of Staff of the High Availability Land Headquarters, Enrique Silvela, the president of the Provincial Court of Valencia, Esther Rojo, the deputy Jesús Salmerón, the senator Emilio Argüeso and the director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, Pablo González Tornel.
According to the Red Cross, in this mascletà there have been 33 attentions, the majority (twenty-four) due to fainting but also due to anxiety attacks (four).
This is the last mascletà of the “prefallas”, the week before the five big days of the festival, which begin this Tuesday night with the planting of children’s monuments in the streets.
It will be followed by a few days with the hotels in “technical full” and a time that will accompany the party practically the entire week in the first Fallas in three years without anticovid measures.
