La Tomatina Festival 2017 | Tomato Throwing Festival Spain Video
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La Tomatina 2017: More than 20,000 revellers threw 160 tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes at each other in Spain on Wednesday in an epic, annual food fight known as the “Tomatina”.
Extra police were deployed at Spain’s annual “Tomatina” tomato throwing festival in the eastern town of Bunol on Wednesday in the wake of the deadly twin vehicle attacks in Catalonia.
There are numerous stories surrounding the origin of the festival. According to La Tomatina’s official website, it was said to have begun at a parade in 1945. A fight broke out among a crowd of young people at the parade, and they ended up near a market that was selling vegetables. The young people then started throwing tomatoes at each other until local forces intervened and ended the fight.
A year later, some young people again brought tomatoes and other vegetables from their houses in order to fight, and thus the tradition was said to have been born.
A total of 740 security forces were on duty, including police officers, firefighters and ambulance workers, an increase of around five percent over the same time last year, according to Bunol city hall.
In addition, police cars were parked at the entrance to the town’s narrow streets, where half-naked revellers pelted each other with tomatoes during the hour-long festivities, to prevent unauthorised vehicles from entering.
The iconic fiesta — which celebrates its 72nd anniversary and is billed at “the world’s biggest food fight” — has become a major draw for foreigners, in particular from Britain, Japan and the United States.
The bang of fireworks set off the bedlam at 11 am. Revellers, many wearing just bathing suits and goggles, bent down to pick up tomatoes from the ground to throw while others lay in the pulp.
Some 160 tonnes of ripe tomatoes were offloaded from trucks into a crowd of 22,000 people, about two-thirds of them foreigners.
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Extra police were deployed at Spain’s annual “Tomatina” tomato throwing festival in the eastern town of Bunol on Wednesday in the wake of the deadly twin vehicle attacks in Catalonia.
There are numerous stories surrounding the origin of the festival. According to La Tomatina’s official website, it was said to have begun at a parade in 1945. A fight broke out among a crowd of young people at the parade, and they ended up near a market that was selling vegetables. The young people then started throwing tomatoes at each other until local forces intervened and ended the fight.
A year later, some young people again brought tomatoes and other vegetables from their houses in order to fight, and thus the tradition was said to have been born.
A total of 740 security forces were on duty, including police officers, firefighters and ambulance workers, an increase of around five percent over the same time last year, according to Bunol city hall.
In addition, police cars were parked at the entrance to the town’s narrow streets, where half-naked revellers pelted each other with tomatoes during the hour-long festivities, to prevent unauthorised vehicles from entering.
The iconic fiesta — which celebrates its 72nd anniversary and is billed at “the world’s biggest food fight” — has become a major draw for foreigners, in particular from Britain, Japan and the United States.
The bang of fireworks set off the bedlam at 11 am. Revellers, many wearing just bathing suits and goggles, bent down to pick up tomatoes from the ground to throw while others lay in the pulp.
Some 160 tonnes of ripe tomatoes were offloaded from trucks into a crowd of 22,000 people, about two-thirds of them foreigners.
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