The artwork and papier-mache sculptures are painstakingly crafted and then burned in Las Fallas, the most important yearly celebration in Valencia.

Life is difficult right now for Carlos Mazón, the president of Spain’s Valencia region. Take a recent week in his diary as an example. On the Tuesday, he had to hurry out of a pharmacy in the ...

Five months after deadly floods ravaged Valencia, the Spanish city is hosting its biggest celebration of the year.

VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — The enormous blue cone slowly crushes tiny piles of sand that represent houses. It symbolizes the deadly havoc wrought by floods that ravaged Spain's eastern Valencia five ...