Tomato Festival

Travel & LeisureOutdoors

  • Author Jie Jin
  • Published February 4, 2010
  • Word count 451

Spain has numerous annual festivals, the people in this country where the nature of a warm, holiday are an indispensable element of life. Nature of the Spaniards a warm, cheerful, holiday every effort is joining the fire all the rave scene in general, anyone who can mobilize the sensual. Tomato Festival, is such a super-vent Games.

It is the folk tradition of Spain’s annual holiday, this festival started in the year of 1945. It is said that, one day, a small band blowing horn across the street blatantly seek publicity, and the leader even performed rampantly. At this moment, a young man came up with a new idea, he grabbed tomatoes, and threw it to the horn, and LaPaTong in each other to see who can threw the tomatoes in it. Then this is the origin of "tomato fight".

Tomato Battle

People enjoying it were vividly described as "tomato battle." The tomato fight is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Bunol in the Valencia region of Spain, it lasts a week. During the holidays, tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world to fight in a brutal battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets. They took off their T-shirt, struggling to diathermancy juicy tomatoes seen hurling others, the rules of the game are rotten tomatoes must be pinch before throwing to others in order to avoid injuring others. Of course, this would also help to make tomatoes even stickier. Soon, tomato juice on the streets of town to form a section of the river did not have knees, and people’s physical and laughter are also submerged in the ocean of red tomatoes.

On that day, at 12:00 noon, with the command, people waiting on the People’s square and nearby, immediately rushed to the six big trucks with tomatoes, and grabbed the "red bullet" and threw them casually to familiar and unfamiliar people. An hour later, the warriors are all "tomato exhausted", "jadedness", and the Tomato Festival ended.

Then, Bunol Creole town residents and thousands of volunteers open all available taps, investing into another battle – clean the street. About an hour later, the square and the streets were swept clean again; Bunol Creole town resumed the usual halcyon.

So if you want to travel to the Bunol Creole town, maybe you can choose at the day of the last Wednesday of August. Then you can also enjoy this exciting and unique festival in person. Oh, what’s a good idea isn’t it? Come on, just do it please, I’m sure you will have a forgettable holiday.

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