![]() ![]() Īs a result of the report of Javier Basilio, a broadcaster from the Spanish television program called Informe Semanal, the festival started to be known throughout the rest of Spain. The protest was successful, and La Tomatina Festival was finally permitted and became an official festival. The parade was accompanied by a music band that played funeral marches. It was a demonstration in which the residents carried a coffin with a huge tomato inside. The festivity was again canceled until 1957 when, as a sign of protest, a tomato burial was held. The people protested the prohibition and the festival was again allowed with more participants. La Tomatina was banned in the early 1950s by Francisco Franco due to the festival's lack of religious importance, however, this did not stop the participants, who were arrested. In the following years, the boys' example was followed by thousands of people. Although the local forces broke it up, this began the yearly tradition. The following year, some young people engaged in a pre-planned quarrel and brought their own tomatoes from home. There was a market stall of vegetables that fell victim to the fury of the crowd, as people started to pelt each other with tomatoes until the local forces ended the fruit battle. The participant flew into a fit of rage, and began hitting everything in their path. One participant's Big-head fell off, as a result of the festivities. The young people decided to take part in a parade with musicians, Giants and Big-Heads figures. ![]() La Tomatina Festival started the last Wednesday of August in 1945 when some young people spent time in the town square to attend the Giants and Big-Heads figures parade. History La Tomatina 25 August 2010 Tomato battle at Tomatina in 2006. Since 1945 it has been held on the last Wednesday of August, during a week of festivities in Buñol. ![]() La Tomatina ( Spanish pronunciation: ) is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buñol, in the east of Spain 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the Mediterranean, in which participants throw tomatoes and get involved in a tomato fight purely for entertainment purposes. ![]()
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