‘Tomatina’ tomato fight festival
Had enough salad and gazpacho? Here’s another way to use up tomatoes. The annual “Tomatina” tomato fight was this morning in Bunol, a village outside Valencia, Spain. Drawing from a 160-ton cache, for an hour or so, thousands of people, many of them tourists, lobbed the ripe fruit like snowballs, bathing each other and the surrounding streetscape in pulp and juice.
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- Revelers throw tomatoes at each other during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight festival in the village of Bunol, about 30 miles outside Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday. The streets of an eastern Spanish town are awash with red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual “Tomatina” battle that has become a major tourist attraction. At the annual fiesta in Bunol on Wednesday, trucks dumped 160 tons of tomatoes for some 20,000 participants, many from abroad, to throw during the hour-long morning festivities. (Alberto Saiz/AP)
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- A reveler takes tomatoes to throw into the crowd during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight festival in the village of Bunol, Spain. (Alberto Saiz/AP)
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- Revelers covered in tomato pulp participate in the annual “tomatina” festivities in the village of Bunol, near Valencia. on Wednesday. (BIEL ALINO/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A resident looks at a wall pelted with tomato pulp during the annual “tomatina” festivities in the village of Bunol. (BIEL ALINO/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Two women laugh during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight. (Alberto Saiz/AP)
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- Crowds of people throw tomatoes at each other during the annual “Tomatina”, tomato fight. (Alberto Saiz/AP)
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- Revelers covered in tomato pulp participate in the annual “tomatina” festivities in the village of Bunol, near Valencia on Wednesday. (BIEL ALINO/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A resident looks at a street pelted with tomato pulp during the annual “tomatina” festivities in the village of Bunol. (BIEL ALINO/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Revelers covered in tomato pulp take a selfie in the annual “tomatina” festivities in the village of Bunol, near Valencia on Wednesday. (BIEL ALINO/AFP/Getty Images)
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