One of the new year’s traditions people do in Spain is that they eat 12 grapes. After the clock strikes midnight, if you are able to eat one grape at each stroke of midnight (12 strikes, 12 grapes) then you will have good luck for the year.
Una tradición que tienen las personas de España es que comen doce uvas para el año nuevo. Si podes comer una uva cada vez que suena el reloj para la hora de la medianoche cuando cambia de año, entonces vas a tener buena suerte ese año (son doce golpes entonces doce uvas).
Each year in Buñol, Valencia there is a festival held on the last Wednesday of August called La Tomatina, where tomatoes are thrown in the streets for a huge tomato fight!
La Tomatina began in August of 1945 after a participants’ big head came off at a Giants and Big-Heads figures parade, causing him to become angry. In his anger, he began hitting everything in sight. Being that there was a fruit stand near by, people began throwing tomatoes into the crowd. In the following year, a group of boys threw tomatoes in remembrance of this occasion, thus beginning the tradition.
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Valencia’s racing heritage goes back a long way. To the Romans. In those days chariots satisfied the need for speed in the circo romano. Today, 250-horsepower MotoGP motorcycles costing over $2 million dollars each thrill spectators at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.
