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Published 27 Aug, 2015 05:02pm

La Tomatina: The day Spain turns red

The streets of the eastern Spanish town are awash with red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual "Tomatina" battle that has become a major tourist attraction. At the annual fiesta in Buñol on Wednesday, trucks dumped 150 tons of ripe tomatoes for some 22,000 participants. The world-famous festival has been held in the Valencian town of Buñol on the last Wednesday of August since 1945.

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