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PLAZA DE LA VIRGEN
SCHEDULE: From 16:00 up to 00:00 on the 17th and 18th of March.
This act of devotion to the Virgin of the Forsaken, mistress of Valencia,
is celebrated since the year 1945. In that epoch, the falleras were leaving
the bunches of flowers at the feet of the Virgin, close to the major altar
of the Royal Basilica.
In the year 1947, there were so many falleras, that the offering
took place in the Seat of the Virgin, depositing the flowers in a
frame of wood that was covering the altar frontals of the Basilica.
Almost 60.000 falleros and 32.000 children take part in the offering to the Virgin of the Forsaken, during the fallas.
The women, dressed in reproductions of the suits of 18th and 19th century, carry bunches of flowers to make a gigantic tapestry that forms the mantle of the Virgin, in an enormous image of the mistress of Valencia located in the Seat of the Virgin.
In the middle of the decade of the 80, there were so many falleras taking part to the offering that Jose Azpeitia, an artist and fallas maker, was asked to accomplish a gigantic image of the Virgin.
The mantle is made with the thousand of flowers that the falleras deposit. The design changes every year.
Twenty-six "dressing men" take charge gathering the bunches of the falleras and locating them in the place adapted to make the mantle of the Virgin.
The design of the Virgen mantle changes every year, but remains privately until, as the hours happen, is revealed with the placement of the flower bunches.
Almost 10.000 musicians accompany 383 commissions falleras that take part in the offering.
In the entry to the Seat of the Virgin are seen the moments of major emotion, when the falleras deliver her flower bunches and cannot contain the weeping.
For the confection of this mantle, 203 commissions falleras carried bunches of red carnations, 86 commissions brought white carnations, and 87 commissions brought carnations roses.
Sight of the Plaza of the Virgin. It can be seen the later part of the Virgin mantle, and the flower baskets that the commissions falleras deliver as offering to the Virgin.
