how did the tradition start?
No one is completely certain how this event originated, The theories are that in the 1940’s, during the celebration of the towns patron saint, a group of people started throwing tomatoes at each other. This tomato fight took place at the town center were it is still celebrated now. The next year the same people came back again to have a bit of fun, but this time they bought their own tomatoes, and more people joined them. It was repeated the next year, and the year after that, and so on. The police couldn’t do anything about it. In 1994 la tomatina became an official tradition.