Barcelona: People from every region of the world celebrate customs and festivals according to their traditions, which aim to have fun as well as share in the happiness of others.
In this way, a person is refreshed by separating himself from the busy life and spending some time in sightseeing, but in Spain, Manchale enjoy these moments in a unique way.
The people of Spain, according to their traditions, decorate the festival of tomatoes every year, in which thousands of people throw tomatoes at each other.
Thousands of revelers and tourists flock to this festival called “Tomatiena” in Baul, Spain.
Everyone is waiting to see where the tomatoes will be showered when suddenly they are showered with tomatoes from trucks and balconies of houses and fans and streets are bathed in red.
With that, each hand collects a stock of tomato shells and starts pelting each other, with the crowd getting excited each time.
To participate in this world’s biggest food fight, people come from other countries of the world like UK, Japan, Australia and USA and make this interesting and unique fight a part of their life.
Why is La Tomatina celebrated?
The exact date of Tomatina is unclear as many sources have different accounts. However, the festival’s official website says it began in 1945 with the Gigantes y cabezudos parade, which translates to the parade of giants and big heads in English.
The parade is held in the Plaza del Pueblo on the last Wednesday of August. Here participants will parade through the main square wearing costumes and giant paper fish heads.
During this parade in the year 1945, a group of youths were disturbing the parade so much that one of the participants dropped a paper.
The angry participants created a ruckus and eventually started throwing things at the crowd of youths and spectators. Soon everyone started throwing things at each other.
There was a vegetable stall nearby and after some time the crowd started using fruits and vegetables from the stand as ammunition.
Other sources say that the incident was caused by a quarrel between two farmers in the Plaza del Pueblo, in which the whole town eventually got involved and started throwing vegetables at each other.
