For over 200 years, people in Catalonia, Spain, have been creating human towers, known as castells, out of their bodies. This year, the castellers achieved something never seen before.
Every two years, the Tarraco Arena placed Tarragona, the true temple of the discipline, hosts the largest casteller show in the world. The Pallagos del Conflent, which train all year in Prades,...
Castells (castillos or human towers) are one of the traditions par excellence of Catalan culture, which can be seen in a good number of its cities and towns, especially those of Camp de Tarragona and Penedès. Anyone who has the opportunity to see them will always do so with the emotion contained in the face of the permanent physical and psychic danger that involves confronting the law of gravity during the composition of a human tower. Not in va…