US EditionTons of Overripe Tomatoes Become Projectiles in Spain’s ‘Tomatina’ Food Fight
The 78th edition dedicates its tomato-throwing event to victims of the October tragedy, involving 22,000 participants and using 120,000 kilos of tomatoes.
- On Wednesday, 27 August, Buñol in Spain's Valencia region will hold La Tomatina festival, with volunteers and inhabitants preparing to turn the town's streets red.
- After the Oct. 29, 2024 floods, the 78th edition is dedicated to victims and resilience under the slogan `Tomaterapia`.
- Organisers say the battle will involve 22,000 participants throwing 120,000 kilos of tomatoes over one hour during La Tomatina festival.
- After the tomato hour, cleaning crews and volunteers will hose streets and offer communal showers, followed by a RedBull Tomatina afterparty at El Planel sports centre.
- International media will converge on Buñol as journalists from Japan, China, the US, the UK, Australia, Brazil, India, Germany, France and the Netherlands join influencers including Helena Wranny and Spanish creators, highlighting La Tomatina's status as a festival of international tourist interest this year.
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Tons of overripe tomatoes become projectiles in Spain’s ‘Tomatina’ food fight
BUÑOL, Spain (AP) — Thousands of people from around the world seeking a uniquely messy thrill spent one wild hour flinging bushels of overripe tomatoes at each…
Diario de Jerez
To the cry of "tomato, tomato!" the 78 edition of the Tomatina de Buñol (Valencia) has started at 12:00 hours, punctual to its annual appointment, in which 22,000 participants have thrown 120,000 kilos of vegetables that have filled with red and "adrelina" the streets of the town, in a year "complicated" and "difficult" after the passage of the dana on October 29.
The town of Bunol was once again covered in red, with more than twenty thousand people going wild at Tomatina this year.
In Spain the tomatoes flew again. Around 22,000 people participated in Buñol in the east of the country in the crazy and traditional tomato battle "La Tomatina". For an hour the participants threw each other with the overripe and muddy fruits. As ammunition about 120 tons of tomatoes were used, which after confirmation of the organizers were grown especially for the festival and were not suitable for human consumption. According to the Guinness …
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