Tourists and locals throng the streets of Valencia for the Fallas festival, admiring satirical statues which are burned at the end of the festivities. The structures portray references to last October’s historic floods which devastated the Valencia region and led to 225 deaths, Spain's deadliest such disaster in decades. “We have really suffered a lot, so celebrating Fallas was very important,” says Yolanda Lerma Navarro, president of the association of people affected by the floods. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES