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Thousands Join Buñol's La Tomatina as 165 Tons of Tomatoes Fly
Spanish media reported that about 40% of recent participants were tourists from outside Spain as the festival drew more international visitors.
- On Wednesday, thousands of revelers descended on the village of Bunol, Spain, for the annual Tomatina tomato fight, painting the town red with up to 165 tons of overripe tomatoes.
- The festival originated from a 1945 food fight before Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco banned it in the 1950s; televised media in the 1980s later revived the tradition into an international attraction.
- Bollywood movie 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' sparked a notable jump in visitors from India in recent years, introducing the festival to many Indians seeking the experience.
- Non-Local attendees pay 15 euros for a ticket to participate; the first rule requires squashing tomatoes before hurling them to avoid injuries.
- Similar tomato-flinging events have since occurred in Florida, London, Amsterdam, and Hyderabad, India, while the tomatoes' citric acid acts as a natural cleaning agent for the town's streets.
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Red roads as if they were the set of a movie splatter. Actually it is tomato: 150 tons that about 22 thousand people launched for an hour on the occasion of the Tomatina, the famous festival of Buñol, Spain. The battle of tomatoes originated in 1945, during the traditional fashion show of Giants and Testons, when an altercation among some young people degenerated in a tomato launch. The event was banned for a period at the beginning of the 1950s…
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Thousands of participants from around the world throw tons of overripe tomatoes at each other during the traditional tomato fight "La Tomatina", which takes place annually in the small Spanish town of Buñol on the last Wednesday of August.
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