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22 November 2019 12:45 PM

The festival will run for approximately three weeks (by Cinemaattic)

Cinemaattic brings the biggest Catalan film festival ever to Scotland

Watch Catalan films, eat and even learn to cook Catalan food and witness unique Catalan traditions in Scotland to kick off the Winter season

Culture

10 October 2019 11:45 AM

Seven-tier human tower by Vilafranca group in California, by Golden Gate, on October 9, 2019 (by Castellers de Vilafranca)

Human towers rise high in California

Vilafranca 'castellers' group brings long-standing Catalan tradition to Golden Gate Bridge

Culture

16 September 2019 12:27 PM

Human tower erected in front of Tarragona's city council building as part of Santa Tecla festivities (Jordi Marsal/ACN)

Human towers get Tarragona's Santa Tecla Festival underway

Catalonia's unique custom of building 'castells' made of tiers of people the main feature on first Sunday of southern city's annual festivities

Culture

30 August 2019 05:50 PM

The Colla Jove Xiquets de Tarragona building a human tower at the 2019 Saint Felix day celebrations (Jordi Pujolar/ACN)

Varying degrees of success at Vilafranca del Penedès' human towers festival

Saint Felix celebrations sees Catalonia's top four tower-building ‘colles’ attempt daring ‘castells’

Culture

21 September 2018 06:02 PM

Castells perform at the Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona during La Mercè 2016 (by Julia Pérez)

La Mercè 2018: what to do

From fire running 'correfocs' to afrobeat, this year's Barcelona-wide festival has something for everyone

13 September 2018 06:55 PM

The 'bordegassos' human towers group in Vilanova i la Geltrú in a performance in September 2018 (by Bordegassos de Vilanova)

Human tower group caught in crossfire of yellow ribbon conflict

Castellers pull out of ad to help children with cancer after production company objects to their yellow shirts

Society

30 August 2018 02:48 PM

The Colla Jove de Xiquets castellers perform a human tower for Sant Fèlix on August 30 2018 (by Gemma Sánchez)

Human towers celebrated at Sant Fèlix

One of the most important days for this centuries-old competition is celebrated in Vilafranca del Penedès

Culture

03 July 2018 11:59 AM

Pro-independence leaders welcome the arrival of politicians jailed in Madrid to the Catalan prison of Lledoners with yellow ribbons (by ACN)

Jailed pro-independence leaders to arrive in Catalonia on Wednesday

Relocation of six out of nine politicians imprisoned in Madrid underway; transferral of three others already approved

Society

17 May 2017 07:58 PM

The human tower built in front of the Sagrada Família, at the same time than those in the rest of Europe (by M. Martí)

Last works on the human towers museum of Catalonia

“Strength, balance, courage, and sanity” are the four key elements that guide the new Human Tower Museum of Catalonia in Valls, 100 km south of Barcelona. This ambitious project, aims to become a reference for the human tower...

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