Have you ever thought a whole village is painted by tomatoes? Yes you may have because this is very famous. There is a festival that throwing tomatoes each others and dripping wet with tomatoes. People in this festival fight each others with throwing tomatoes. The sight wil be pretty fun and stress away. The festival is known as tomato festival and the real name is La tomatina.
La Tomatina has two origins. Fisrs is in 1944, price of toamto went to down and the farmers were getting angry and threw tomato to councilors. And it was started at Bunol, Spain. To celebrate to achievement of demonstration. They threw tomatoes to reminate this demonstration. This is first origin of La Tomatina. Second origin is this. In Wendsday of last week of August, 1945, band music was marching village open space. And there was people who wanted to participate the festival and they pushed band music people and band music people threw anything that they grasped and that anything was tomatoes. And the tomato battle was started, this tomato battle is second origin of La Tomatina.
On the oiled tree, there is hamon which is traditional food that leg of pig preserved in salt several years. The festival starts when hamon is pulled. Every wednesday last week of August, tomato batlle happens. Tomato festival hols in Bunol, Spain. Before starting festival, people who live in Bunol cover their buildings and window. Everythings turn into red because of tomato. And after 1 or 2 hours, the tomato festival finishes with fireworks. If you throw tomato after fireworks, you may pay lots of fee. It will be helpful to stress out. City hall buys tomatoes in several places and the amount of tomato is 12million kg.
Here is tip for tomato festival. You need old T-shirt and shoes for easily throw away. If you have long hair, then you may need swimming cap because the sediments is hard to remove. You need tough shirt to prevent the be ripped. You must not things seem like bottle. You have to throw mashed tomato. You must stop when the second sign rings.
