The standoff lasted less than 48 hours. Valencia's city council has accepted the Gremio de Artistas Falleros' request and moved the transport and stockpiling of falla pieces to Tuesday 9 March for every commission outside Sección Especial, Primera A and Primera B. The draft of the 2027 Bando Fallero had set that mass rollout for Thursday 11, which the workshops read as three working days fewer than in 2025 and 2026, when it was authorised on 8 March.

The fallas department passed the decision to the Gremio on Saturday, and the Gremio relayed it to its members straight away. Sección Especial, Primera A and Primera B commissions can take their monuments out on Saturday 6 March. There is a detail worth underlining: the text announced at the Bando meeting mentioned only "Primera A", but the change also covers the bronze category.

With those dates, artists get some room back before a schedule that is not moving: the children's fallas must be up on 15 March and the main ones finished by 8:00 on the 16th. The bulk of Prefallas then lands from 12 to 14 March, with the city centre streets packed.

Why the 11th did not work

The council's original reasoning made sense: line up the arrival of the pieces with the installation of the 180 marquees, scheduled for 11 and 12 March, and avoid road closures starting too early after the neighbourhood complaints of 2026. The trouble was cramming góndola lorries, cranes and marquee structures into the same day.

The professionals made the usual argument, this time with figures: some artists plant eight fallas, in Valencia alone. With tachograph limits and the working hours of drivers and crane operators, each monument takes three to four hours to load, move and unload. Three days fewer cannot be made up, they said, least of all if rain or wind turns up.

What remains is paperwork: carrying the change into the final text of the Bando, due for approval in the coming weeks and a pass through the local government board. Meanwhile, another date is already locked in the fallas calendar: the big switch-on of the illuminated streets, the top-category one, will be on Friday 5 March.

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