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| Gigantes y Cabezudos |
La Tomatina accidentally began in 1945. The
last Wednesday of August 1945 it was organized the Gigantes y Cabezulos festival in Buñol. A group of young people wanted to participate
in this famous festival around Spain and, considering that they were not
allowed to, they pushed the participants and took tomatoes from a nearby stall
and threw them to the participants. It ended in a big brawl where all people of
Buñol were involved. The Police arrested the group responsible for the fight
and made them pay for the damages. The following year, these young people repeated
the same “battle” bringing their own tomatoes but the Police stopped it again.
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| La Tomatina |
In the fifties this festival was forbidden by
the Town Council but thanks to the TV program “Informe Semanal”, it became
well-known in 1983. Nowadays the Town Council is, in fact, the responsible for buying
and paying the tomatoes.
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