La Tomatina Festival Spain 2017
This is a glimpse of La Tomatina festival of 2017 in Spain. Let me tell you about it a little more.
Spain’s La Tomatina festival is perhaps one of the world’s most famous food fights and while you may be aware that it sees revellers fling thousands of squashed tomatoes at one another, do you know how the event first began?
There are several theories behind the origins of the annual festival, which takes place in Bunol near Valencia. Some people claim it started as a practical joke being played on a terrible-sounding musician while others think it began after a lorry carrying tomatoes overturned.However, the most widely believed version links La Tomatina’s inception to that of another festival – Gigantes y Cabezudos.In August 1945, this parade was taking place through the town’s streets when some local youths decided they wanted to get involved. Rushing into the main square, one of the participants – who was wearing a traditional costume consisting of an enlarged, grotesque head – was knocked to the ground.
Upon getting to his feet, he became angry with the young people and a fight soon started. However, it wasn’t just punches and kicks that were thrown. Thanks to a nearby fruit and vegetable stall, tomatoes were also flung. Although the police came to quell the disturbance, revellers had so much fun that they decided to hold another tomato fight in the same place the following August. This also resulted in chaos, people were thrown in the public water
fountain and even those who were not taking part were hit by the fruit.With several authority figures among the innocent victims, La Tomatina was subsequently banned for the following years. But this did not quell its popularity among the locals.
In 1957 some youths decided to hold a tongue-in-cheek ‘funeral’ for the festival.This saw a coffin containing a large tomato carried through the streets of Bunol, while sombre music was played.
Eventually, officials at Bunol town hall bowed to public pressure and soon afterwards La Tomatina was reinstated. However, with the council overseeing the running of the event it became more regulated and several rules were introduced, including the one-hour time limit on throwing tomatoes. But, the festival was banned once again for several years after former ruler Francisco Franco decided that it did not have any religious significance. Since the 1970s it remerged and has steadily become more popular over the years,
drawing in thousands of revellers from across the world.
La Tomatina certainly has a rich and colourful past but if you want to be part of its future, all you need to do is visit Bunol on the fourth Wednesday of August.
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