Posted In: 000 revelers hurl 120 tons of tomatoes in the streets of Bunol at the world's biggest tomato fight. Posted In: 40
The streets of the eastern Spanish city were left awash with red pulp after tens of thousands of people pelted each other with 120 tons of ripe tomatoes in the traditional annual battle.
Participants jumped and flopped in the sea of red as tomatoes were hurled at the crowds from five loaded trucks.
The hour-long street fight known as the Tomatina is an event that has its roots in a food fight between childhood friends back in 1945.
At one point the civil guard had to step in to control some over-zealous participants, and every year the festival ends in a huge clean-up operation where the town's streets and walls are hosed down.
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