Splat! Spain's giant Tomatina food fight returns after COVID ban

Record ID: 1686853

  • Title: Splat! Spain's giant Tomatina food fight returns after COVID ban
  • Date: 31st August 2022
  • Summary: BUNOL, SPAIN (AUGUST 31, 2022) (REUTERS) REVELLERS THROWING TOMATOES FROM TRUCK PEOPLE UNLOADING TOMATOS FROM TRUCK TO START FOOD FIGHT REVELLERS JUMPING OVER THE TOMATOES PEOPLE THROWING TOMATOES FROM TRUCK VARIOUS OF REVELLERS BATHING IN TOMATOES WATER BEING SPRAYED ON REVELLERS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE THROWING TOMATOES
  • Embargoed: 14th September 2022 12:09
  • Keywords: Bunol Spain festivity food fight tomato fight
  • Location: BUNOL, SPAIN
  • City: BUNOL, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Europe
  • Reuters ID: LVA001178931082022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:More than 20,000 revelers hurled tomatoes at each other on Wednesday (August 31) at "La Tomatina," Spain´s most famous food fight festival, which returned after a two-year hiatus due to COVID restrictions.
    Tourists and locals cheered as the trucks loaded with 130,000 tons of ripe tomatoes drove through central Bunol, 40 kilometres (24,8 miles) off coastal destination Valencia, splattering the sloppy, red ammunition over the street where the food fight is held
    After a two-year COVID hiatus celebrations went full throttle with tomatoes flying non-stop for roughly one hour.
    (Production: Guillermo Martinez, Silvio Castellanos, Elena Rodriguez)
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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