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Fans of the famed Tomatina tomato-throwing festival are seeing red. Tomatina has been held annually in Bunol, Spain since the 1950s but for the first time organizers have put a limit on the number of participants, and begun charging people to participate.
Festivalgoers are decrying the move, which they say commercializes the event and destroys the spontaneity that gives Tomatina its characteristic flavor. Organizers claim the move to cut the number of participants in half, and the introduction of fees, are both necessary to ensure the event is safe and to defray the town’s costs to host the event at a time when it is deeply in debt.
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