The tomato De Buñol (Valencia, 9,765 inhabitants) that celebrates the 78th edition, has hung the “No tickets” poster and hopes to gather 22,000 people – the maximum planned capacity planned – many of them from abroad, especially from India, the most populous country in the world, and Australia; While the Japanese public goes down, the Councilor for Fiestas y Tomatina, Sergio Galarza, indicated.
The Tomatina, as its motto Tomatherapy, loaded on Tuesday in trucks to be used as ammunition in this popular international repercussion party.
One of the curiosities of this edition is the speed with which a young Indian has lowered the ham that crowns the “soap stick”, a greased Cucaña that marks the start of this party. After climbing the stick and climbing other participants he has achieved it a few minutes after 10 am. In the last edition, nobody managed to lower the ham.
The popularity of The tomato Among the Indian population comes from the film Zindagi na milegi dobara(You only live once), who tells the trip to Spain of three friends.
Tomatina, like other popular festivals in Spain of international draft ,. Throughout the Tomatina route they hang from the balconies Banderas de Palestina and banners with proclamations against “the genocide.”
Tomatoes are pear type and are not suitable for human consumption. They are cultivated exclusively for the Tomatineexplained the first lieutenant mayor and councilor Galarza, who supervised the loading work of the trucks.
The mayor stressed that this party makes “a small town of ten thousand inhabitants of the province of Valencia in the world epicenter” every last Wednesday of August, the day in which “everyone looks at Buñol.”
It is -that devastated a good part of the province of Valencia and also affected the town of Buñol. Galarza has pointed out that, “after the suffered and lived,” it is shown that the Valencians reborn and are prepared “for what comes to us.”
The mayor is concerned that after the Tomatine There are people who go to the river, who still have an area with dana spills and, therefore, there are posters in which the bathroom is not recommended. Galarza recalled that from the City Council showers showers to be able to remove the remains of the tomatoes.
