Bunol, Spain
La Tomatina
Adventure
Best time
August
Category
Adventure
Duration
5–8 days
Group size
2–12 travellers
The moment
Tens of thousands of people throwing overripe tomatoes at each other for an hour
About this experience
La Tomatina takes place on the last Wednesday of August in the small town of Bunol, near Valencia. For one hour, the entire town becomes a tomato battle — overripe tomatoes are delivered by truck and the crowd of roughly 20,000 people hurls them at each other until the streets run red. It is completely absurd and entir…
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