As with every year, on the first day of March the mascletàs begin in the City Council square, to be launched every day, without interruption, at two oclock in the afternoon until San Jose's day on 19th March. Only for seven or eight minutes - but what minutes! - during which the adrenaline shoots up at the same time as the masclets, the fireworks and the noise. And, you have to be there to experience it.
The mascletà is a pyrotechnic display that has very little to do with the castillos (fireworks displays) in which light and colour take precedence. The difference is that the castillo is looked at and admired while the mascletà is heard, experienced and felt.
In the mascletà, the launching of shells and firecrackers wrapped in paper and distributed in rows are set off gradually, achieving different sound effects at ground level at the beginning and in the air at the end, until reaching a deafening final apotheosis. Get in the mood and come to Valencia to see a mascletà at least once, you will see that it's pretty intense.
