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La Tomatina. La Tomatina is a Spanish festival in Buñol, Spain where participants throw tomatoes at each other. It is said to be the biggest food fight in the world. [ 1][ 2] From the festival's origin as a food fight between friends in the 1940s, it has become a famous tourist attraction. Prior to 2013, the festival did not operate with an ...
La Tomatina, Spain La Tomatina will take place on 28 August in 2024 (Getty Images) One of Spain’s oddest festivals takes place in the town of Bunol, near Valencia, every August.
La Tomatina begins when a truck containing the tomatoes rolls into the Plaza del Pueblo around 11am. This involves using fire engines to spray down the streets, and locals using brushes to clear ...
BUÑOL, Spain (AP) — Some 15,000 people, including many tourists, pasted each other with tomatoes Wednesday as Spain’s annual “Tomatina” street battle took place in the eastern town of Buñol.
The Spanish festival of La Tomatina, a large public tomato fight where participants become soaked with juice from tomatoes, has been suggested as another possible origin of the wet T-shirt contest, although La Tomatina began in 1945. [11] [9]
Summary. Description La Tomatina (25.08.2010) - Spain, Buñol 21.jpg. La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Tens of metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets in exactly one hour. Approximately 20,000–50,000 tourists come to ...
STORY: Tourists and locals cheered as the trucks loaded with 130,000 tons of ripe tomatoes drove through central Bunol, 40 kilometers (24,8 miles) off coastal destination Valencia, splattering the ...
The festival of San Fermín is a week-long, traditional celebration held annually in the city of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. The celebrations start at noon on 6 July and continue until midnight on 14 July. A firework ( chupinazo) starts the celebrations and the popular song Pobre de mí [ es] is sung at the end.