La Tomatina Festival

Bunol, Spain

30 Aug 2023

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30 Aug 2023

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About La Tomatina Festival

La Tomatina is a competition that is held inside the Valencian city of Bunol, within the East of Spain 30 kilometres from the Mediterranean, wherein members throw tomatoes and get worried in a tomato fight simply for amusement functions. Since 1945 it's been hung on the last Wednesday of August, in the course of a week of festivities in Bunol.

It began the ultimate Wednesday of August in 1945 when a few younger human beings spent the time inside the metropolis square to attend the Giants and Big-Heads figures parade. The younger boys determined to take part in a parade with musicians, Giants and Big-Heads figures. The electricity of jovialities triggered one player's big head to fall off. The player flew right into a suit of rage, commenced hitting the whole thing in his route. There changed into a marketplace stall of vegetable that fell sufferer to the fury of the group. People started out to pelt each other with tomatoes till the neighborhood forces ended that fruit struggle.

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