10 Facts you didn’t know about La Tomatina

La Tomatina festival is the world’s largest food fight festival celebrated in the world.

It is a festival where people across the world come to Bunol in Spain to celebrate this food fight, where people fight with squashed with tomatoes. It is a festival filled with fun.

 

1. How the tomatina started is still a mystery. It’s believed that angry townspeople attacked city councilmen with tomatoes during a town celebration.

 

 

2. La Tomatina is originally a festival of Bunol, Spain, but it is now celebrated across several cities across the globe.

 

3. On the night before the tomato fight, participants of the festival compete in a paella cooking contest.

 

4. The festival does not begin until one brave soul has climbed to the top of a two-story high, greased-up wooden pole and reached the coveted ham at the top

 

5. About 90,000 pounds of tomatoes are used during the Festival.

 

 

6. The tomatoes come from Extremadura, where they are specifically grown for this purpose.

 

 

7. The shopkeepers cover their shops with large plastic bags to avoid the carnage.

 

 

8. It was not until 2013 that the ticketing for the event started, if you don’t have ticket you don’t enter.

 

9. After the  food fight festivals the streets are washed by firetrucks with water from a roman aqua duct.

 

 

10. After the food fight the city streets turn to be very clean because of the acid in the tomatoes.

 

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