They are the soaring human towers that have become the pride of Catalonia over hundreds of years of carefully honed tradition. Hundreds of people compete in the region every year to create the highest ...
In front of a crowd of thousands, Catalans of all ages team up to construct complex human towers, or ‘castells’, a powerful display of regional identity and unity – and fun. The human towers are the ...
In Barcelona, the Catalonian cultural tradition of human towers, or Castells, is a source of strength and community. ANITA LI: Imagine you walk into a Catalonian plaza, and you see a guy climbing onto ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When I arrived in Catalonia in 2012, the two things that struck me most were Catalan nationalism and human towers called castells. People were ...
The town of Valls in Catalonia on Sunday hosted its first traditional “castell” – or human tower – event without crowd limits or other virus measures since the start of the pandemic. The spectacle – ...
Tarragona, Spain, is famous for its castells, human towers built apparently for sole purpose of it being an awesomely fun thing to do. Check out this incredible video of castellers competing for the ...
TARRAGONA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Spain's biggest human towers competition took place on Sunday, with some 11,000 spectators packing the bullring in the northeastern city of Tarragona to watch the daring ...