La Tomatina

Our group examined about “La Tomatina”. It is famous festival, so you may know about it. This time I would like to introduce about this festival.

“La Tomatina” means tomato festival. This festival is held Bunol in Spain in August every year. Many people assemble in this town from all over the world with the coming of the festival. Surprisingly the population in this town becomes three times!!

Main item is tomato you know. About 140 tons tomatoes are prepared on trucks. The trucks come to narrow streets and square of Bunol. Then tomato battle starts with sign at 12:00. People start throwing tomato to other people. As soon as the festival starts everything which are people, building and street turns red by tomato.

After 1 hour, the battle stops with second sign. It is amazement, because noisy battle stops suddenly. Then workers in the city bring strong hose and they start spraying of water. Everything is washed and the city is completely recovered. In addition there are many showers, so participant can cleanly wash their body. This crazy festival finishes in a short time.
There are some stories about “La Tomatina”, but the origin is unclear.

Everybody can take part in this festival, so participants are increasing every year. However there are some rules for them. They must not bring dangerous objects like bottle into the festival. They need to crush tomato before throwing, because of prevention of injury. They must take care about truck. They must obey finish sign. If you want to join in this festival, you must obey these rules.

I am interested in this festival. When I watched picture of tomato festival for the first time, I was amazed, because people were covered by tomatoes. I have never seen such as heavy tomatoes. I think tomato battle helps reduce stress. If you are interested in tomato festival, you should search about it.