La Tomatina

Since then, year after year the excitement for it and the number of participants has grown.

OFFICIAL EVENT: You even have to buy a

Finally, La Tomatina was authorised and institutionalised as a local festival.

Over the years this celebration began to become popular in the rest of Spain.

The overwhelming success led to La Tomatina of Buñol being declared a Festival of Interest to International Tourists by the General Secretariat of Tourism in 2002. These days, the food fight takes place on the last Wednesday in August and has now become an official event.

La Tomatina is now so popular that you even have to