http://www.alifeinvalencia.com Guide to Valencia Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:13:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/tomatina-2010/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/tomatina-2010/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:37:26 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/tomatina-2010/ The week-long festival features music, parades, dancing, and fireworks. On the night before, participants of the festival compete in a paella cooking contest. It is tradition for the women to wear all white and the men to wear no shirts. This festival started in a casual way in 1945, but wasn’t officially recognized until 1952.
Approximately 20,000–50,000 tourists come to find out [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/tomatina-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/tomatina-tomato-festival-bunol/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/tomatina-tomato-festival-bunol/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:37:52 +0000 Valencia Guide http://localhost/?p=69 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 so much juice in the street…
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