Museo Fallero de Valencia
Former mission house holding decades of papier-mache figures spared each year from the festival bonfires by public vote.
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This guide to the Museo Fallero de Valencia opens in 1934, when sculptor Regino Mas asked judges for a pardon, not for a person but for a papier-mache doll marked to burn in Valencia's Fallas festival. It follows the origin of the indulto, the public vote that spares one ninot a year from the flames, and the building's earlier life as a mission house before becoming a museum in 1971. Walk the galleries holding decades of pardoned figures, from satirical politicians to children's favorites saved since the 1960s.
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