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Spain sits in the wrong time zone
Spain aligns with central European time even though it lies at the longitude of Britain. That mismatch pushes sunset late and helps explain dinners at 10pm.
La Tomatina
La Tomatina uses 150,000 overripe tomatoes
Every August the Spanish town of Buñol trucks in tomatoes too soft to sell and lets 20,000 people throw them for exactly one hour. Rule one: squash the tomato before you throw it.
San Fermín
The bull run lasts under three minutes
Pamplona's encierro covers 875 metres of narrow street, and the bulls usually cover it in about two and a half minutes. Runners wear white with a red sash in honour of Saint Fermín.