Bunol

At this time of every year, the village Bunol near Valencia in Spain becomes a playground for revellers who throw overripe tomatoes at each other.

Spain's annual tomato throwing festival, La Tomatina,kicked off in the eastern town of Bunol on Wednesday. The iconic fiesta -- billed as "the world's biggest food fight" -- has become a major draw for foreigners. See 10 incredible pictures from the La Tomatina festival in Spain.

At the annual Tomatina fiesta on Wednesday 160 tonnes of ripe tomatoes were offloaded from trucks into a crowd of over 22,000 half-naked revellers who packed the streets of Bunol for an hour-long battle.

La Tomatina is a food fight festival, which takes place on every last Wednesday of August in the town of Bunol near to Valencia in Spain. Thousands of people make their way from all corners of the world to take part in the 'World's Biggest Food Fight' where more than one hundred metric tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes are used for the street fight.

The streets of an 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.

Bunol, the Spanish town launched its internationally famous tomato food fight, the "Tomatina", with the participation of about 45,000 young people from all over the world who faced off against everyone else in the narrow streets with 120 tonnes of the ripe red vegetables for ammunition.

At this time of every year, the village Bunol near Valencia in Spain becomes a playground for revellers who throw overripe tomatoes at each other.

Spain's annual tomato throwing festival, La Tomatina,kicked off in the eastern town of Bunol on Wednesday. The iconic fiesta -- billed as "the world's biggest food fight" -- has become a major draw for foreigners. See 10 incredible pictures from the La Tomatina festival in Spain.

At the annual Tomatina fiesta on Wednesday 160 tonnes of ripe tomatoes were offloaded from trucks into a crowd of over 22,000 half-naked revellers who packed the streets of Bunol for an hour-long battle.

La Tomatina is a food fight festival, which takes place on every last Wednesday of August in the town of Bunol near to Valencia in Spain. Thousands of people make their way from all corners of the world to take part in the 'World's Biggest Food Fight' where more than one hundred metric tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes are used for the street fight.

The streets of an 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.

Bunol, the Spanish town launched its internationally famous tomato food fight, the "Tomatina", with the participation of about 45,000 young people from all over the world who faced off against everyone else in the narrow streets with 120 tonnes of the ripe red vegetables for ammunition.