La Tomatina is a festival that consists in a battle with tomatoes of all against all along the main street of Buñol.
the People werte crowded (depending on years too much) from St. Louis Park, to Violet Avenue in a straight line following the succession of streets that cross the town side by side for a little over 1 kilometer largely through the old town of Buñol. Believe it or not (seeing the large number of people accumulated) for those narrow streets circulate several trucks (the number varies depending on the municipality's budget for that year) filled with tomatoes (and local people who throw tomatoes) and unload mountains of tomato in middle of the road along the route.
Every time a truck is close pushes the people out to make room and when it leave everyone turn inward to pick they can the more tomato that .
Tomatoes are grown specifically for the festival in Valencia area.
The townspeople which goes up to the trucks joins in the list many years in advance and are selected in a drawing.
The houses and shops in the area, cover the walls, doors and windows so it will not stain, and as the Tomatina ends within hours the town is once again clean.
No one can throw tomatoes (or anything else) before the festival started, or since the end of the housing ring.
On the streets of the side, there is often patrols Tomatoes, that litter the voyeurs who do not want to enter (although it's prohibited).
The audience of the Tomatina is becoming more international since its inception, and between the average of 45,000 visitors (far beyond surpassed many years), representatives of virtually every nationality.
Usually people wear white to notice more the tomato.
Tomatina picture taken from the wikipedia, made by flydime
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