Dénia organises talks and exhibition to celebrate Fallas centenary

Dénia's Fallas reach their centenary next March, a date set from the first plantà held in 1927 in the Les Roques area. To mark this milestone, the Centre d'Estudis Fallers has been set in motion to organise the commemorative events together with the Local Fallas Board and Dénia Town Council.

Among the planned initiatives is a series of talks on the history and evolution of the festival, which will run between October and December at Dénia Library. According to Dénia Digital, the first session will take place on 7 October and will be led by Antoni Reig, with the lecture "Ganes de Falles. Els precedents d'una festa centenària a Dénia". On 5 November, Juan Céspedes will address "L'Evolució del valencià en les Falles", and on 3 December Pere Borrego will close the cycle with "La cultura de les Falles". All three events will begin at 19:30.

The centenary programme also includes the opening of an exhibition dedicated to recovering the city's Fallas memory. These activities will be joined by other events to be announced later.

According to Dénia Digital, there are records of celebrations linked to Saint Joseph in the late 19th century, although these antecedents are not taken as the reference date for the centenary, which is placed at the 1927 plantà.