Valencian lovers.

The day .

The tradition marks that the man gives his partner some mazapan sweets shaped like fruits and vegetables, wrapped in a handkerchief, mocaor in Valencian.

It is increasingly common to be given without a handkerchief, or that it is the woman who gives it to the man, but this custom is the one that has cover this holiday on "The day of the Valencian lovers."

When Jaime I entered Valencia, he was presented, along with his wife Doña Violante de Hungary, with fruits and vegetables of the Valencian garden.

It is believed that the first commemoration of this event took place in the first centenary of the entrance and was celebrated by pulling rockets throughout the party. Only the wealthiest families celebrated it with cakes, mazapanes and nougat.

However, it was the prohibition of the celebration of the entrance of King Jaime I in Valencia, after the War of Succession, which made the Mocadorá tradition appear as we know it today.

The bakery guild "mocked" the prohibition by preparing some mazapan sweets that evoked these forbidden rockets, as well as the carnal part of the party, since the phallic and rounded form of them emulated the male and femén sexual organs. They were called nixture and tronator . Together with these two pieces, fruit and vegetable figurines were also made.

The man gave these sweets, wrapped in a handkerchief or This way of wrapping them was the one that gave name to the holiday: Mocadorá.

And this is a party where love is evoked, there is no better way to capture it than with something that is pure feeling: the flowers .