BUNOL: Thousands of revellers splattered each other with tomatoes on Wednesday (Aug 31) in the Spanish town of Bunol celebrating the return of the annual 'Tomatina' food fight after a two-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A convoy of six trucks carrying 130 tonnes of ripe tomatoes rolled thro
BUNOL: Thousands of revellers splattered each other with tomatoes on Wednesday in the Spanish town of Bunol celebrating the return of the annual"Tomatina" food fight after a two-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But this year only 15,000 of the 20,000 available tickets sold as fewer people from Asia made the trip due to lingering COVID-19 travel restrictions, local officials said. A reveller covered in tomato pulp sits on a crushed tomato flooded street during the annual "Tomatina" festival in the eastern town of Bunol, on Aug 31, 2022.
"We were really eager to resume our beloved party, to once again be able to throw tomatoes at each other and release all the adrenaline we built up these last two years," said Maria Valles, Bunol's town councillor for tourism.The"Tomatina" started in 1945 when locals brawling in the street at a folk festival grabbed tomatoes from a grocer's stall and let loose.
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