Spain's Biggest Botellón

Via Sploid-More than half a million youths are expected to take part in Spain's biggest botellón, a national drinking binge, as cities from Málaga to Madrid and Barcelona to Bilbao try to outdo one another by staging the largest gathering.

The botellón, or “big bottle”, began in Madrid in the 1980s. But in recent months the new and more worrying phenomenon of the macro-botellón has started to worry Spanish parents and authorities. Children as young as 12 gather on the streets to be at the biggest botellón.

Unfortunately in some cities, this outdoor big celebration ended in violence...