The Tomatina Festival in Spain

Caroline Pate 0 Comment Eurasia, Travel Spain, Tomatina festival, tomato fight, tomatoes

Revellers covered in tomato pulp participate in the annual “Tomatina” festival in the eastern town of Bunol, on August 30, 2017.
The iconic fiesta — which celebrates its 72nd anniversary and is billed at “the world’s biggest food fight” — has become a major draw for foreigners, in particular from Britain, Japan and the United States.

Aug 31, 2016

‘Tomatina’ tomato fight festival

Steve Earley 0 Comment Eurasia, World festivals, Spain, Tomatina, Tomatina festival, tomatoes

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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.