• Four gondolas, 15 tons, and a 30-ton extension will be set up for the castle meeting on March 16 and 17
- It is an innovation that the city is implementing, a pioneer in Spain, for the nighttime displays on March 16 and 17
- The Fallas councilor, Santiago Balleter, emphasized that the main advantages of this system are «higher and more colorful visibility of the pyrotechnic show and will help reduce traffic»
- Four gondolas, 15 tons, and 30 extendable ones will be placed in a section of L’erada for assembly and then transferred to Montolivet bridge where the firing will take place
The Fallas councilor and the President of the Central Council, Santiago Balleter, announced that this year’s Fallas in Valencia will «feature a significant novelty, pioneering at a national level» by «using mobile platforms to collect fireworks for the week.
These statements were made by Ballester during the presentation of the mobile gondolas for fireworks, in the L’Areda section near Montaliv Bridge, alongside representatives from the Civil Guard, National Police, Fire Department, and Pyrotechnics Professionals such as Vulcano and Tamarit.
In this context, the councilor explained that this new project «originated from listening to the local police in València, Civil Protection, and the Fire Department, as the city’s mobility is as affected as the castles, as during the week it receives a significant influx of tourists.»
Therefore, Ballester stated that «the castles on March 16 and 17, which will be fired from the Montolivet bridge, will be set up, for the first time, on mobile platforms.» Specifically, four gondolas, 15 tons each, and 30-ton extendable ones will be placed «to assemble the castles in an L’E Albereda section and then travel to the bridge, allowing for greater visibility and a pyrotechnic show of the district. Once completed, the truck’s head will reload the platform, thus fully releasing the traffic,» said the President of the Central Council.
Additionally, Santiago Ballester emphasized the mobility that this innovation brings, «managing to open the Montolivet bridge just a few hours before firing the castle, as indicated, and once the platforms and traffic return to normal.»
Furthermore, the Fallas councilor highlighted that this is a project «that has been in the works for almost a year, with significant tests conducted to ensure that the trucks support the amount of rifle powder that will be shot, setting Valencia as a pioneer in Spain for this, even though it has not been done in Europe. He added that this system will not be applied to firework displays «because the amount of rifle powder is higher, and we will continue to close the bridge in one direction.»
Finally, the Fallas councilor mentioned that «an infrastructure report was requested from the local council to confirm that, indeed, the bridge, given the daily traffic it handles, supports this innovation.»
