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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 .
The streets of a town in eastern Spain were awash in red on Wednesday as revellers flung overripe tomatoes at each other in a high-spirited battle royale during the traditional Tomatina festival ...
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.
Tens of thousands of people in Spain are "painting the town red" as they participate in La Tomatina, an annual tomato-throwing festival.
Every year upwards of 40,000 people gather in the town to throw over 115,000 kilograms of tomatoes at each other in the yearly La Tomatina festival. The festival is a popular sight, and many European tourists visit the town to participate in it. [2] Near the town are the training grounds and facilities of football club Levante UD.
The festival known as La Tomatina is held in Buñol, Valencia, in honor of the town's patron saints, Louis Bertrand and the Mare de Déu dels Desemparats (Mother of God of the Defenseless), a title of the Virgin Mary.
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 ...
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]