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Well, the reason for celebrating this festival goes something like this-
It all started on the last Wednesday of August, 1945( almost 7 decades ago) when some young people wanted to have a place among the retinue of a parade with musicians, Giants and big head figures. The energy and enthusiasm of these young people was over the top. In all the excitement, they happened to push one of the participants of the parade and he fell down. He flew into a fit of rage and started to hit everything in his path. There was a market stall full of vegetables which unfortunately fell victim to the furious crowd and people started pelting each other with tomatoes until the local forces ended the battle.
The following year, the young people picked up a quarrel by their own decision. This time they brought tomatoes from their homes to enact the same episode as the previous year. Although the police broke this early tradition in the following years, the boys had made history without being conscious about it. Initially, it was banned in the early 1950’s but people spoke and the festivity was allowed with more participants and more frenetic feelings. The festivity was again cancelled till 1957, when as a sign of protest, the tomato burial was held ( crazy! Isn’t it?). It was a demonstration in which the people carried a coffin with a huge tomato inside. The parade was accompanied by a music band which played funeral matches. And guess what? It was successful. La tomatina was finally allowed and spread to the rest of Spain.
Since then, the number of participants increased year after year. In 2002, La tomatina of Bunol was declared the festivity of international tourist interest by the Secretary department of tourism due to it’s success.
If sources are to be believed, in August 2014, in the Vadodra district in India, the district administrators charged a fine of 6.5L from the organizers who conducted a tomatina inspired event on friendship’s day. Tomatoes were sold at Rs.90 per kg and it’s apparent misuse had irked the government.
August end denotes the start of the well known yearly Spanish celebration, La Tomatina. Held in the Valencian town of Buñol, the vivid and chaotic festival includes members tossing many over-ready tomatoes at one another.
This celebration has been illustrative of how wild, and wacky Spanish celebrations and La Tomatina festival is. (Bull Fighting, anybody?) They accompany some fascinating beginnings.
The world’s well-known tomato war, marches, firecrackers and music attract guests at La Tomatina festival in Spain.
La Tomatina celebrated each year in the Valencian town of Buñol has been celebrated since the mid 1940’s. There are several ideas as to the origin of the festival but nobody knows exactly why.
The spectators simply throw tomatoes at one another as a parade of trucks laden with tomatoes files through the streets.
For a while Franco banned the festival because it had no religious significance. A protest was held and the local authorities officially recognised the festival. Now it is one of Spain’s major tourist attractions.
it is held on the 28th August however, due to the Covid19 crisis, this years event was cancelled and next year’s has also been cancelled.
The tomatoes for La tomatina come from Extremadura, a western Spanish region bordering Portugal. They are less expensive and are grown specifically for the holidays. They are inferior in taste too. No they aren’t free.
August end denotes the start of the well known yearly Spanish celebration, La Tomatina. Held in the Valencian town of Buñol, the vivid and chaotic festival includes members tossing many over-ready tomatoes at one another.
This celebration has been illustrative of how wild, and wacky Spanish celebrations and La Tomatina festival is. (Bull Fighting, anybody?) They accompany some fascinating beginnings.
The world’s well-known tomato war, marches, firecrackers and music attract guests at La Tomatina festival in Spain.