La tomatina

 La tomatina

  La tomatina is tomato festival which is held in the Valencian town of Bunyol located in Spain every Wednesday last week of August. This festival is one of the well-known Spanish festivals. I think symbol of this festival is throwing tomatoes.

  We have to go back in 1944 to know the origin of this festival. As tomato's price plunged, people started to throw tomatoes to the members of the city council as taking it out on them. Throwing ripe tomatoes was continued to celebrate accepting their intent and meditate their spirit of citizenship.

  The most important thing to people in Bunyol is covering all buildings and window with vinyl and fabric. When the festival begins, the town could be messed up with tomatoes. 

 Also when I search this festival, I found a very interesting thing about this festival. It has rule which should be followed.

Rules of the festival 

The city council follows a short list of instructions for the safety of the participants and the festival:

• The tomatoes have to be squashed before throwing to avoid injuries.
• No other projectiles except tomatoes are allowed.
• Participants have to give way to the truck and lorries.
• The festival doesn't allow ripping off T-shirts.
• After the second shot indicative of ending the tomato hurl, no tomatoes should be thrown  From<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatina>

This is the Valencian town of Bunyol. It seems like very quite and peaceful.

A lot of people enjoy the festival. Tomatoes which used in this festival are over 100 ton. You can guess how big scale it is. If I participate in this festival and throw tomatoes, I can release all my stress!

 Here is the official homepage of La tomatina www.latomatina.es

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