subject: La Tomatina: Tomato Festival in Spain [print this page] La Tomatina Festival is held annually in the small town of Bunol on the last Saturday of August every year. Tomato festival lasts a week and includes musical performance , a fair , parade , dances and fireworks.
La Tomatina Festival, The Tomato throwing Festival is one of the Spain's most famous and well known festival. It is held annually in the small town of Bunol on the last Saturday of August every year and has been a regular event since 1945.
The Festival La Tomatina is one huge tomato fight and each year around 30,000 people turn up to take part.
The festival starts early in the morning when everyone turns up and dines on a breakfast of Chorizo and Rose wine.
By 11am in the morning everyone's inhibitions are loosened and five huge tomato filled rockets are sent into the skies above the town.
From this point it is every man, woman and child for themselves as the event turns into a tomato slinging war. Everyone is supposed to adhere to a small number of rules: You must squash the tomato before throwing it and you are not allowed to throw anything other than tomatoes.
This festival lasts a week and includes musical performance , a fair , parade , dances and fireworks. Each year the Tomatoes throwing Festival last for around two hours and in total some 125,000 kilos of tomatoes are squashed and thrown.
The festival also brings out a good community spirit where everyone involves helps out with the cleaning up and hosing down.
La Tomatina: Tomato Festival in Spain
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