La Tomatina
food fighting festival throwing tomatoes at each other
Key facts
- Official name
- La Tomatina
- Observed by
- Buñol , Valencia , Spain
- Date
- Last Wednesday in August
- 2025 date
- August 27 ( 2025-08-27 )
- 2026 date
- August 26 ( 2026-08-26 )
- 2027 date
- August 25 ( 2027-08-25 )
- 2028 date
- August 30 ( 2028-08-30 )
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Frequency
- annual
via Wikipedia infobox
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La Tomatina ( Spanish pronunciation: [la tomaˈtina]) is a Spanish festival in Buñol, Spain where participants throw tomatoes at each other. It is said to be the biggest food fight in the world. From the festival's origin as a food fight between friends in the 1940s, it has become a famous tourist attraction. Until 2013 there was no limit to the number of participants; in 2013 the festival became a ticketed event for no more than 20,000, so as not to overwhelm Buñol's population of about 9,000 people.
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