The event, held on the last Wednesday of August, was inspired by a food fight between local children in 1945 in the town, located in a tomato-producing region. Media attention in the 1980s turned ...
On 29 August 1945, in the town of Buñol, near Valencia in Spain, a fight broke out during a cultural parade. They brought tomatoes from home and repeated the experience year after year until one ...
Voice 1: Thousands of revellers splattered each other with tomatoes in August in the Spanish town of Bunol, celebrating the return of the annual “Tomatina” food fight after a two-year absence ...
The Spanish village of Buñol hosts its annual tomato battle, la Tomatina, at the end of August. Celebrate the fiesta by testing your knowledge of Spanish tomatoes.