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Book villas in Spain for La Tomatina

If you are looking for a little something different to do on your holidays this year, then La Tomatina festival in Spain might be for you. The normally sleepy town of Bunol inland from Valencia is transformed in to one huge tomato party for one day every year.

There are many theories on how this fiesta began that now involves trucks loaded full of tomatoes are driven into the town to let 30,000 people start chucking them around after having a good soaking in water. This tomato riot lasts for one hour but is part of a week long fiesta in the town with musical bands, fireworks and as normal with Spanish town fiestas lots of great food.

La tomatina is held on the last wednesday of August during the day and once the final blast signals the end of the tomato riot the town is quickly hosed down leaving little reminder of what had just happened until the next year. This is not for the faint hearted and you will not want to attend in your best summer outfit as you will get covered head to toe in fresh salsa but has got to be on most peoples list of things to see.

Here are a selection of villas in Spain that can be booked for this week that are within easy reach of Bunol and La Tomatina festival, there are plenty of trains running from Valencia to get visitors in to Bunol for the fiesta as this is a small town and there will be a lot of visitors there on the day it is advisable to use the train as there may be limited places to park. Do not worry there will be lots of other people on the train in their old tshirts and shorts;

Apartment in Penyiscola up the coast from Valencia costing £1,147 for 14 nights arriving 21/08/10

House in Oliva outside Valencia costing £559 for 7 nights and £914 for 14 nights arrivging 21/08/10

Apartment in Cullera costing £1,077 for 14 nights arriving 21/08/10

Apartment in Puerto Sagunto costing costing £1,104 for 14 nights arriving 21/08/10

Tagged Fiestas, Holidays, La Tomatina, Spain, Villas in Spain