Spanish town painted red during annual tomato fight
The normally quiet Spanish village of Bunol has literally been painted red during the town’s annual Tomatina festival.
Thousands of people from all around the world arrived at the town for the festival during which around 100,000 kilograms of ripe tomatoes were thrown, leaving the revellers and town saturated in pulp and juice.
The festival, which reportedly dates back to a food fight between youths in the mid-1940s, traditionally concludes with the participants washing themselves clean in the nearby river while the local fire brigade hoses down the streets.
The festival is very popular with younger holidaymakers, particularly backpackers and gap-year travellers.