Culture Issue 179 November 14, 2024 11 Min Read Balancing act: Catalonia’s castells, or human towers, offer a lesson in sharing the load In front of a crowd of thousands, Catalans of all ages team up ...

For the first 200 years, human tower-building was a male-only tradition, but in the 1980s, women began joining. With lighter castellers came the ability to create even higher towers — some ...

Human towers can be crowned or completed, but also they can collapse in the middle of the process, like Colla Vella in the 2012 Competition of Tarragona. Photo by David Oliete Capgrossos de Mataró ...

The tradition of building human towers, or “castells” in Catalan, dates to the 18th century and forms an essential part of Catalonia’s culture.

Stunning pictures show the human towers or 'castells' in the Spanish city of Tarragona as the tradition returns in a ...

Discover the tradition of castells, human towers built by dedicated teams across Catalonia.

If the Catalan dream of independence were captured in human form, it might look like this. Making human towers, or “castells," is one of Catalonia's oldest traditions. Here it's performed at a ...

Members of the "Castellers de Vilafranca" formed a human tower in Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain, to mark Saint Felix Day earlier this week. The building of human towers is common during festivals ...

TARRAGONA — 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… ...

Catalan human towers, which in Catalan are called a "castell," or castle, are an intrinsic part of Catalan national tradition and performances occur nearly weekly across Catalonia.

The tradition of constructing human towers, known as "castells" in Catalan, dates back to the 18th century and is a vital aspect of Catalonia’s culture. "Colles," or human tower troupes, compete to ...