La Tomatina 2027

the Spanish food fight is as messy and fun as you’d expect it to be

Valencia’s La Tomatina is a bucket list event that every year sees 20,000 people descend on the small town of Buñol just to throw tomatoes at their friends, enemies, strangers and loved ones. The history of La Tomatina is deep, with records of tomato fights in the village going back to 1944 at least, and today people come from all over the world to enjoy the experience of throwing some 120 tonnes of tomatoes at each other. It is quite simply the most fun you can have with your food, and Stoke Travel has more than a decade of experience bringing people to this one-of-a-kind spectacle.

La Tomatina tickets

Buñol, the village where the tomato battle takes place, has limited space and given the growing number of interested tomato fighters coming from all over the world, the festival organisers have capped the number of allowed participants in the La Tomatina tomato fight to 20,000 (before the cap the number of attendees was getting close to 50,000 and the village’s narrow streets couldn’t safely support that number). This means that to enjoy La Tomatina you need to get a ticket from an authorised seller, and Stoke Travel has made sure that we have enough for the travellers who book with us.

Enjoy Valencia & La Tomatina from Barcelona or Madrid

But we don’t just come for La Tomatina. We like to use the opportunity to explore Valencia, Spain’s third biggest city with its parties, playas, paellas, and… oranges. Staying with Stoke Travel for La Tomatina includes your stay in hotel rooms complete with ensuite toilets, transfers to and from the tomato fight, Stoke Travel’s experienced guides, and beach games, good vibes, live music and plenty of parties outside the festival itself. Can’t hack multiple days off work, or you’re just keen for the main event of throwing some tomatoes around? Check out our day trips from Barcelona or from Madrid, for a crazy 24 hours with us.

The Tomato Fight

The concept is quite simple – on August 25th tonnes and tonnes, 120 tonnes to be precise, of tomatoes are dumped in the village of Buñol and thousands of partiers from around the world scoop them up and hurl them at each other. It’s game on! While it is war, it’s a war of fun and love (deep down). Nobody gets hurt (hopefully), we all just get a little dirty. You don’t know the pleasure of hurling tomatoes until you’ve tried it, trust us. From the moment the canon fires signalling the start of the battle, we have about an hour to throw as many tomatoes as humanly possible – and there are millions to choose from, soft ones, hard ones, green ones, rotten ones, the choice is yours. Once the fight is done, we’ll wash off in the Buñol river, and then make our way back to Valencia (where we’ll continue to find tomato on our bodies for hours afterwards, if not days).