SPAIN FALLAS

Girls, dressed traditionally, cry on seeing their favourite sculptures burn during the annual Fallas festival in the early hours of Wednesday March 20 2002 in Valencia, eastern Spain. Giant sculptures are burnt in bonfires across Valencia during Fallas in a centuries-old tradition thought to have it origins from carpenters burning old unwanted wood to herald in the season of Spring. (AP Photo/efe, Alberto Estevez) *SPAIN OUT*