La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Tens of metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets in exactly one hour.
The week-long festival features music, parades, dancing, and fireworks. On the night before, [...]
The annual Spanish Tomatino festival, the biggest food fight in the world.
It consists of overripe tomatoes being thrown into drunken crowds!
The festival drew a record 40,000 people last year. First they wait for the big truck of tomatoes, then when it appears, they go nuts whipping tomatoes at each other. NOT FOR KIDS!
And after, there’s [...]
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30. Aug, 2010
Oktoberfest 2010 – A celebration of beer is inspired by the mythical Oktoberfest that is celebrated every year in Munich (Germany).
The first Oktoberfest was celebrated between the 12th and 17th of October in 1810 to celebrate the marriage of prince Luis I to the princess Teresa de Saxony Altenburg.
After the success of the first celebration [...]
25. Aug, 2010
Teatro de la Electricidad is at the Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe in Valencia until the 13-11-2010.
In front of an auditorium with an audience of fifty or so and on a stage that simulates the laboratory of a scientist/inventor, a scientific entertainer is attempting to improve their understanding of concepts related to physical phenomena [...]
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