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Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival, La Tomatina

Participants lay are pictured covered in tomato juice during
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The origin of the tomato fight is disputed — everyone in Bunol seems to have a favourite story — but most agree it started around 1940, in the early years of the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.

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