Damn!
How come the Spaniards always know how to throw the best party? For instance, stampeding with bulls in Pamplona! And what about this: Tomatino! I know I will join in next year!
Apparently everything started in 1945. The town square (where the "tomatina" is traditionally held nowadays) was crowded with young people of that time to witness a "Gigantes y Cabezudos" parade (giant carnival figures with a grotesque head). Some
of them decided to join the authority commitee and music band leading the parade and to do so they pushed the ones who were wearing the giant disguises.
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