new

Friday, January 4, 2013

Flour fight festival of Spain



Flour Fight festival  annually celebrates in IBI city of Spain in 28th of December where people celebrate the festival with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers to celebrate this festival people divide in two groups a group of married men, called the Els Enfarinats, battle against the opposition, called La Oposicio, people with army getup.



According to The Los Angeles Times, the Els Enfarinats enact ridiculous laws and fine people who infringe upon them. The money collected from the fines is donated to charitable causes in the town by the end of the day. After the festival people also take part in cleaning the city which became dirty by pouring flours and eggs.





No comments:

Post a Comment