Orange is one of favorite fruits for those who love fruits. Orange is for eaten by the human but in Northern Italian city of Ivrea, orange is a kind of weapon during the battle.
BATTLE OF ORANGE FESTIVAL is a tradition festival for Italian people which is they need to throw the orange among themselves. This festival held in February annually.
The story behind this battle is many centuries ago, there is a city tyrant tried to violate a young girl. She chopped his head off and the whole town celebrated her action. Based on that tragedy, people create a battle with divide themselves into nine combat teams, stage battle (like in a picture). Then, they attack each other by throwing their weapons, orange among themselves.
Don't you ever think why orange had chosen as their weapon? This is because it symbolize the tyrant's castrated testicles.
psst.
*wear red cap.if not you will be an immediate targets.
