{"id":377370,"date":"2025-08-27T10:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377370\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:28:15","slug":"watch-as-spanish-town-turns-red-for-80th-la-tomatina-tomato-food-fight-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377370\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch as Spanish town turns red for 80th La Tomatina tomato food fight &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands expected to take part in 80th La Tomatina food fight festival &#8211; watch livepublished at 10:16 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>10:16 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flanked by crowds, a line of people sit in ankle-deep tomato pulp that covers the crowd, some wearing goggles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5558b1cf-85b4-44f6-a112-67584bd21736.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Have you ever seen crowds of people hurl tonnes of tomatoes at each other?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whatever your answer is to that question, you can expect to see such scenes today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year marks the 80th anniversary of the La Tomatina festival &#8211; in which attendees throw tomatoes at each other in the streets of Bu\u00f1ol, a Spanish town in the province of Valencia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around 120 tonnes of tomatoes, grown especially for the event, have been trucked into the town ahead of today&#8217;s festival, which last year drew crowds of 22,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event, inspired by a food fight between local teenagers in 1945, is held every year on the last Wednesday of August &#8211; and over the next few hours we&#8217;ll bring you live footage of the hour-long food fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There&#8217;ll be no text updates from us &#8211; instead, hit the<b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\"> watch live button<\/b> at the top of this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands expected to take part in 80th La Tomatina food fight festival &#8211; watch livepublished at 10:16 British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-377370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115100261807508371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}