Tomatina - In general, one of the most popular festivals in Spain, who, oddly enough, gained fame worldwide. In general, this holiday is held in the city of Bunyol, which is located in Valencia province. He is also the largest tomato festival in Spain. It is usually used for more than 150 tons of tomatoes, and for an hour, which is scattered, dispelled and apply to the city streets and all participants in the festival are painted in red.
To participate in the La Tomatina festival, a huge number of tourists from all over the world are going to Spain, which are specially coming to Spain to just leave each other with tomatoes. Tomato festival is usually held in the last Wednesday of August. For example, in 2019, this very medium fell just on the 28th. Due to the very popularity of this holiday, the city's authorities even decided to limit the free entrance and accordingly introduced a fee on it.
In fact, the festival takes place in three stages. At the first stage, one of the participants needs to be climbed onto a high wooden, but a very slippery pillar, which is specially deceived by soap, and there is a piece of Hamon at the top. It is located, by the way, just on the top of the pillar. After this member or luckyon will give this piece, a signal is heard, which indicates the opening of the Tomology.
Well, at the second stage, the long-awaited battle of tomatoes occurs. As a rule, this action begins at 10 am at the central square of Plaza del Pueblo, where the municipality itself will be brought to trucks in advance. The main part of the Spanish TV channels seeks to broadcast live ether from this festival. It continues in essence for about an hour, after which the second signal sounds, indicating the end of the battle.
Well, the third stage in essence consists of a thorough cleaning of houses and the whole city from tomatoes. Firefighters come, which purify buildings and water people from hoses so that they are laundered from this tomato juice. Actually, the holiday of La Tomatina continues not one day, but for a whole week. But during the program, various performances of any different musical and dance groups are passing along the program, as well as fireworks, interesting culinary fights and a lot of other events.
Since the festival collects a practically a huge number of participants from around the world, then everyone needs to think about housing in advance. The city is very small, so many participants stop in neighboring cities and comes here on buses or by train. Before the start of the festival, all shop owners and other establishments are closed as a rule by the window with special protective shields so that tomato mashily simply elementaryly broke them.
Well, all the establishments are restaurants, bars, cafes, hairdressers and other public places just close. In the process of the festival, you can throw tomatoes in almost any passerby, which you meet on your way. But if you consider the fact that several thousand people at the same time are at the same time, then tomatoes can be seen from all sides.
Last year, on August 24, a special children's Tomatin was held in the same city, which began at 12 o'clock in the afternoon. In fact, the children's option is quite similar to the adult, it also begins and ends with signals. Children from 4 to 14 years old could take part in it and a festival was held in a certain zone. And since the entrance to the Tomology was free, any child could participate there. The only condition to participate in the children's holiday was that the child had to be a towel and spare clothes.
The very first time La Tomatina passed in 1945, but completely in unforetitious coincidence. Then the street procession was held in honor of the city holiday end of the summer, and in the process of his young people started a fight. Well, literally near them were vegetable kiosks. In general, they began to take tomatoes there and throw them into each other. Thus, the usual is essentially a fight and marked the beginning of the holiday, which decided to spend annually, but at more fun format. Even before 1975, all participants brought their tomatoes to the festival, and, in fact, the official holiday of Tomatin became only with the eighties of the last century. Directly by the organization he was already engaged in the municipality of Banola, who decided to bring Tomatoes for the holiday for free. Thus, the number of participants in the holiday increased significantly.
The festival has its own certain rules - it is impossible to take a bottle with you, nor any sharp items so that no one will harm anyone and do not lead to an accident. It is forbidden to throw by other objects, only tomatoes. You can not break clothes on the participants of the festival. Then, before throwing a tomato, it must first be crushed as it should be crushed so that God should not cause any injury to anyone. Well, after the second signal sounds, it is necessary to stop throwing tomatoes immediately. Well, of course, no fights and disassembly at the festival should not be.