Month : August
Place : Valencia, Spain
Famous For : Food Fight Festival
Attractions : Throwing of tomatoes, music, parades, dancing & fireworks .
La Tomatina is a food fight festival observed in the town of Bunol in Valencia, Spain. It is held every year on the last Wednesday of August. The most unique attraction of this week-long festival is the one hour in which tens of metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets. Other features of this tomato bash include music, parades, dancing, and fireworks. Participants of the festival compete in a paella cooking contest on the night before the festival