Shuhei Wada
I would like to introduce you about the festival called La Tomatina
What do you imagine when you hear the word festival?
This La Tomatina would exceed what you imagine!
“La Tomatina” is a food festival in Spain. During this festival, people throw tomato each other. It was held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. There are no historical evidences that when did La Tomatina start. However, La Tomatina already had existed since 1944. No one is completely certain how this event originated. One theory is that the event started as a quarrel. There were no rules at that time. Local people just throw tomatoes each other. Today, more than 20,000 tourists come to the tomato fight and enjoy this cultural event. State of Buñol created the certain rule of tomato fight. Tourists will enjoy this forever.
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I had watched this festival on TV before. But, after I read your blog, it really exceeded my imagination! I was surprised that this festival started over fifty years ago and there were a lot of participants. I wonder who cleans the town after this festival.
ReplyDeleteKako Furukawa
I had heard the existence of this festival, and when becoming a member of society, I wanted to join in this festival to release my pent‐up emotions. And I have a question to you. As you said before, you like participating in festival. and if you were Spanish, would you join in it every year?
ReplyDeleteMasashi Yamada
I wonder what I should wear to this festival - maybe something red!
ReplyDeleteAnd I wonder who prepares the tomatoes and if there are any rules of play.
Did you tell us about a water fight festival in Thailand before? If so, this seems similar. I guess there is nothing like that in Japan - I think Japanese are too peaceful or timid to do such an aggressive thing. What do you think?
Ms. MacGregor