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Mona Lisa,Leonardo da Vincis masterpiece,is being unveiled by a Swiss-based art foundation. The foundation argues that this painting is indeed the original,backing its claim with evidence from a US research physicist,a forensic imaging specialist and a top Italian expert on the artist. In a 300-page publication devoted to research over 30 years on what has long been known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa,the foundation argues that it was painted between 1503 and 1505 in Florence and never finished. Alessandro Vezzosi,director of the Leonardo museum in central Italy,said he had long believed in the existence of two Mona Lisas.
La Tomatina,Spains popular tomato-throwing festival may charge fees from next year. Tourists might have to pay an entry fee of 5 euros to throw tomatoes at each other. The August festival attracts up to 50,000 revellers in Bunol. But local authorities would like to cut the number to half. Town councillor Rafael Perez denied the plan to charge visitors has to do with Spains deep economic crisis. The enormous food fight began accidentally in 1945,when a group of young men were excluded from celebrations and protested by throwing tomatoes. The protest continued illegally every year until the town council accepted it as a festival in itself in 1957,and it became famous internationally after the 1990s.
