What happens when once a year, you bring 160 tons of tomatoes to 20,000 people and tell them to have at it for the next hour?

Well, a tomato throwing bash, of course.

That’s La Tomatina.  An annual festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buñol, a town located in the East of Spain 30 km / 19 miles from the Mediterranean, in which participants throw tomatoes and get involved in this tomato fight purely for entertainment purposes. Since 1945 It has been held on the last Wednesday of August, during the week of festivities of Buñol (via wikipedia).

Want to see lots more photos from yesterday’s tomato throwing bash?  Come on, you know you do.  Then head over to Instagram and take a peek at all of the fun.

Photo courtesy folhadespaulo on Instagram. 

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