'Nit de la Cremà' marks the end of the 2025 Fallas in Benidorm

 'Nit de la Cremà' (the burning of monuments) marked the end of the 2025 Fallas festival. Fire and gunpowder marked, once again, the farewell to the Valencian Community's quintessential festival, declared an Intangible Heritage Site by UNESCO, in Benidorm, one of the southernmost towns where they are planted.

The Mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, the Councilor for Festivals, Mariló Cebreros, the Councilor for Citizen Security, Jesús Carrobles, other members of the council, and the regional deputy, José Ramón González de Zárate, accompanied the president of the Local Fallas Board, Mª Ángeles Espinosa, and the senior members, Teresa Peris (Els Tolls), Olaya García and Ariadna Orgilés (Rincón de Loix), and Laura Pascual and Adriana Baldó (Benidorm Centro) at the burning of the adults' monuments.

The first fallas to be engulfed in flame are the children's fallas at Rincón de Loix, at 10:30 p.m., followed half an hour later by the one in Benidorm Centro. Then, it's the turn of the older ones. The first to be set ablaze is Falla del Rincón, at 11:30 p.m. At midnight, Falla Benidorm Centro, and at 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, Els Tolls commission, which this year won first prize for best monument and best critics.

Hundreds of people gathered in front of the cardboard, wood, and expanded polystyrene sculptures, protected by the security measures prepared by the City Council, which included the Local Police, Civil Protection, and the Red Cross, who monitored the progress of the spectacle at all times. After the spectacle, and while the city slept, workers from the Department of Street Cleaning and the concessionaire removed the last remains of the monuments in just a few hours, and the Department of Mobility restored service to the streets that had been closed in recent days for the festival. Benidorm bids farewell to the 2025 Fallas and will soon welcome the 2026 Fallas.