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La Tomatina Festival 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcdjfj4Osy8
La Tomatina, the world’s largest tomato-throwing festival, begins Wednesday as up to 22,000 revelers are expected to meet up in the tiny Valencian town of Buñol on the east coast of Spain. This year takes on added significance as it marks the 70th anniversary since the wacky festival first came to... fruition.
There isn’t a definitive history of how the event got started. Some believe it happened when two boys got into a fight during a parade and began lobbing tomatoes from a vegetable stand at each other. Others believe the tomatoes were thrown to protest an unfavorable decision by the city council or launched at a particularly bad musician. What the storytellers in the quaint Spanish town of 10,000 all agree on, though, is that the annual act of throwing tomatoes at one another for fun began in 1945 on the last Wednesday in August.
While there was no official event until years later, people from the town decided to meet annually, bringing their own tomatoes to the fight. Over the years, however, police and local leaders attempted to have the whole event canned, upset with the waste of food and the mess it made.
http://www.ibtimes.com/la-tomatina-...val-draws-thousands-pelt-each-other-tomatoes/
Please read more from here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Tomatina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcdjfj4Osy8
La Tomatina, the world’s largest tomato-throwing festival, begins Wednesday as up to 22,000 revelers are expected to meet up in the tiny Valencian town of Buñol on the east coast of Spain. This year takes on added significance as it marks the 70th anniversary since the wacky festival first came to... fruition.
There isn’t a definitive history of how the event got started. Some believe it happened when two boys got into a fight during a parade and began lobbing tomatoes from a vegetable stand at each other. Others believe the tomatoes were thrown to protest an unfavorable decision by the city council or launched at a particularly bad musician. What the storytellers in the quaint Spanish town of 10,000 all agree on, though, is that the annual act of throwing tomatoes at one another for fun began in 1945 on the last Wednesday in August.
While there was no official event until years later, people from the town decided to meet annually, bringing their own tomatoes to the fight. Over the years, however, police and local leaders attempted to have the whole event canned, upset with the waste of food and the mess it made.
http://www.ibtimes.com/la-tomatina-...val-draws-thousands-pelt-each-other-tomatoes/
Please read more from here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Tomatina
