US EditionWhat to Know About Spain’s ‘Tomatina’ Festival, the Tomato Street Fight Turning 80
The 80th La Tomatina festival, held annually since 1945 except brief bans and pandemic suspensions, drew 22,000 participants throwing 120 tons of specially grown tomatoes.
- This year, La Tomatina marks its 80th anniversary Wednesday in Buñol, with tomatoes supplied from Don Benito over 5 hours away and not intended for consumption.
- The festival originated from a spontaneous 1945 food fight by local children and was briefly banned in the 1950s by Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator; it faced 2020 and 2021 suspensions due to the pandemic.
- The event brings 120 tons of tomatoes and up to 22,000 people, with organizers urging to squash tomatoes before throwing; it ends with a cannon shot, communal showers, and street hosing.
- Televised media exposure in the 1980s helped La Tomatina become a national event, with non-local attendees paying 15 euros and Spain recognizing it in 2002 as an international tourism attraction.
- The festival's model inspired tomato-throwing events in Florida, London, Amsterdam, Sutamarchán, and Hyderabad, while Buñol Deputy Mayor Sergio Galarza says tomatoes are grown exclusively for La Tomatina.
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Independent EspañolThousands of people will bathe a city in red with tomato pulp, throwing the fruit at each other on the 80th anniversary of Spain’s famous “Tomatina”.
Thousands of people will bathe a city in red with tomato pulp on Wednesday, throwing the fruit to each other on the 80th anniversary of the famous “Tomatina” of Spain. For the street battle of tomatoes, which lasts an hour, 120 tons of tomatoes will be brought too ripe to the city of Buñol, in the [...] La entrada Get to know some data from La “Tomatina” of Spain that up to 80 years was first published in Foco Informativa.
The Municipality of Buñol has awarded the contract to Alius Trading 2015, S.L., in charge of providing the 120,000 kilos of tomato that will dye red this municipality on August 27
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