La Tomatina tomato fight festival in Buñol near Valencia, Spain, is celebrated every year on the last Wednesday in August though the partying starts earlier in the week.
There exist several interpretations on the origin of this popular Spanish festival. According to some historians, its origin goes back to a "practical joke" that some friends wanted to play on a man who was crossing the town square singing and playing a musical instrument but, apparently, he was doing it so badly that some of the people around decided to take some tomatoes from a fruit and vegetables stall and throw them at him. Everybody else joined in and it ended up in a tomato battle.
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