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Title: Fiesta de la Tomatina en Buol, Espaa


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Fiesta de la Tomatina en Buñol, España
  • Señorita Dietz y Rey Mateo

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La Historia de Tomatina
  • There exist several interpretations on the origin
    of this popular festival. According to some
    historians, its origin goes back to a "practical
    joke" that some friends wanted to play on a man
    who was crossing the town square singing and
    playing a musical instrument but, apparently, he
    was doing it so badly that some of the people
    around decided to take some tomatoes from a fruit
    and vegetables stall and throw them at him.
    Everybody else joined in to end up in a tomato
    battle.

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Un continuacion
  • However, the most reliable and historical version
    says that everything started in 1945. The town
    square (where the "tomatina" is traditionally
    held nowadays) was crowded with young people of
    that time to witness a "Gigantes y Cabezudos"
    parade (giant carnival figures with a grotesque
    head). Some of them decided to join the authority
    commitee and music band leading the parade and to
    do so they pushed the ones who were wearing the
    giant disguises.

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One of the participants fell down and when
he stood up he started beating everyone around so
everybody got caught up in a fight.Fate or
chance, there was a vegetable stall nearby with
open crates showing the goods for sale. The young
people involved in the fight took the tomatoes
from the crates and started throwing them at each
other until the police broke up "the battle", and
those responsible for the riot paid for the
damages.
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This riot was not forgotten and
the next year on the same Wednesday of August the
youths of the town met again at the square, but
this time with their own tomatoes. This is how
another battle started and once again was stopped
by the local police. In fact, in the following
years the authorities forbade the celebration of
what was already popularly known as the "day of
the tomatina". Nevertheless, this celebration has
been held every year since them.        
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This year the party of The Tomatina is on
Wednesday 25 of August, and it begins at 1000
hours. This party is framed inside the Fair and
Parties of Buñol that will be from the 20 August
to 30 of August.
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