Every year during the last week of August in the Spanish town of Bunol passes summer festival with fairs, dances, parade, contest for the best paella and tomato fight - La Tomatina.
The celebration begins at 10 am, when the Central square drive dozens of trucks loaded with tomatoes. Tomatoes imported from neighboring Autonomous community of Extremadura, where they are cheaper. According to tradition, before the fight, some of the townspeople have to climb on a high wooden pole greased with soap, and to remove therefrom the prize - Hamon. Before tomato massacre there is a shot from a water gun: at this point, townspeople run to the truck with tomatoes and shoot at them, those who hesitated. According to the rules before you throw tomatoes must be crushed.
The tradition was started in 1945. It is argued that first tomato fight occurred between friends, in the process of fighting at the festival. During the reign of Franco holiday was banned as having no religious significance, but was revived in the 1970's.
Since 1980 tomatoes for a holiday are supplied by the city authorities, and in 2002, the Central Bureau of tourism awarded the festival in Bunyola international status.
Portal The Village chose the most vivid images of the action in the network Instagram. "Sanctions" - commenting readers. Someone complains, that in Kaliningrad meanwhile, the price of tomatoes has reached 200 rubles per kilogram.
Recall that recently the Minister of agriculture of Spain offered to give aren't popular because of the Russian ban on the import of fruit in charity, and encouraged the Spaniards to increase consumption of fruit..
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