La Tomatina is an annual festival held in Spain where people throw thousands of tomatoes at each other.

La Tomatina is an annual festival held in Spain where people throw thousands of tomatoes at each other.

La Tomatina is a tomato-throwing festival where participants are not only allowed, but encouraged to hurl tomatoes at one another during a full-on, two-hour-long food fight. Its purpose is purely for entertainment. The festival carries on a tradition that started in 1945 and has now become a staple of Spanish tradition in Valencia.

La Tomatina is celebrated annually on the last Wednesday of August in Buñol, a medieval town of 9,000 located about 25 miles west of Valencia.

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