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Flour Fight!! Flour Fight!!!

Ourense (Galician pronunciation: [ow'rins e], Spanish: Oh'rayn seh) is a province in Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The province hosts a variety of festivals throughout the year, with each town having its own "Orense festival".

One of the many small towns in Orense is the Spanish village of Xinzo de Limia. That city hosts one of the most unique food fights in the world, the “flour battle”.

Every year, Galicians from Xinzo de Limia celebrate their very own Ourense festival. The entire festivities are centered around a number of mythical characters (peliqueiros) whose significance and stories have been forgotten in time. Still they are part of local tradition, so the people dress in colorful clothes, put-on intricate masks and run through the streets of the city, making as much noise as possible.

People all over Galicia come to see the “peliqueiros”, but also to take part in the Flour Battle, where people throw tons of flour at each other.

Glasses are recommended as the fine ingredient can get pretty much anywhere.

The end result is tiredness, a feeling of being "breaded and ready for the hot grease", and the memory of a day of more fun than you can imagine.

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To learn more about the xinzo-festival, take a look at the following web sites:

Oddities.com
USA Today