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La tomatina de Buñol

La Tomatina is a festival celebrated in the Valencian municipality of Buñol (Spain). It is always celebrated on the last Wednesday of the month of August, within the Buñol festival week, and consists of participants throwing tomatoes at each other.

This beautiful story began on the last Wednesday of August in 1945, when some young people were hanging out in the Plaza del Pueblo to witness the parade of giants and big heads. The boys decided to make a place for themselves in the parade, although their impetus caused one participant to fall. He, seized with rage, began to hit everything in his path.

By a whim of fate, a vegetable stand was located there that was used by the angry crowd to release adrenaline: those present began to throw tomatoes at each other until the forces of public order put an end to such a particular battle.