Castells, a traditional sport in Catalonia

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The background photo is about a traditional sport I enjoy watching. It is an exibition of castells (castles) in Catalonia, at the North Eastern corner of Spain (Europe). It is about building and orderly dismantling those extraordinary human structures, the feet of a person on the shoulder of another.


The photo is about the day the first ten level human tower of the history was built. They were the Castellers de Vilafranca, in front of the city hall of Vilafranca del Penedes, the small town were I was born. When they did it, the crowd roared as in a final of the soccer league!. The structure collapsed while it was dismantled, but we did it!




Curious about it?

Well it may be not new to you, maybe National Geographic has already published an article on it, there I suggest some links:

In english

Comments by a traveller


Another experience


History Somewhat boring.


A tutorial The basic terms.


A video

Watch the process. Seems to work only with IE.

Links:

Links to all colles (crews) having a web site. 99% of the pages are in catalan as this is the language the castells are built in.


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