The INSIDER Summary:
- The annual La Tomatina festival takes place in Bunol, Spain.
- This year, around 22,000 people gathered to throw tomatoes at each other.
- Goggles are recommended.
The crowds filling the streets of Bunol, Spain, for the annual La Tomatina festival are hungry for tomatoes. Not to eat them, but to toss them at each other in an epic food fight that takes a squad of fire trucks to clean up.
This year, around 22,000 people gathered in the town square to throw tomatoes at each other. Here are 16 incredible photos from the festivities.
La Tomatina festival takes place every year in Bunol, Spain.
It started in 1945 when a participant in Spain's Giants and Big-Heads parade went into a fit of rage and began pelting people with vegetables from a nearby stand.
Spanish authorities banned the food fight until 1957, when people held a tomato "funeral" in protest.
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