More than 40,000 persons will participate today August 29^th in one of the most anticipated festivals of the year in Buñol, Spain called the Tomatina. This event consist of well, a bunch of tomatoes (about 117 tons of tomatoes trucked in from Navarra) then as you can see by the pciture, a food fight is created.

Not sure how this ritual came to be many suggest it started back in the 40´s when an annual parade of Gigantes and Cabezudos (enormous figures with big heads) were passing through the street and several kids knocked them over making the parade participants very upset and violent to which the kids responded by throwing tomatoes at them, the next year the kids returned with their own tomatoes to start the fight again, police tried to stop them but from that day on this tomato fight has been unstoppable and now thousands of tourist attend this yearly festival to join in the fun.

Source aluxurytravelblog

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