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mtopor@cataloniatoday.cat - 4 November 2018 2.00 h

Tarraco Arena, 2018

Photo: juanma ramos

Reaching for the sky

- mtopor@cataloniatoday.cat

A breath­tak­ing view of the Colla Vella dels Xi­quets de Valls, who won the 27th Castells Con­test, for the first time after 18 years, tak­ing the place of their great ri­vals, the Castellers de Vi­lafranca.

For those who have never seen the human tow­ers con­test, it is def­i­nitely a must-see and an amaz­ing ex­pe­ri­ence. Tar­rag­ona’s Tar­raco Arena Plaça was packed with hun­dreds of mem­bers of the colles castelleres, all dressed in dif­fer­ent colours, and per­form­ing their human tow­ers in front of an au­di­ence of thou­sands of peo­ple. A unique dis­play of courage, ef­fort, team­work and com­mon sense, def­i­nitely worth watch­ing at least once in a life­time. The castells tra­di­tion, passed down from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion since the 18th cen­tury, is orig­i­nally from Valls (Tar­rag­ona), and in 2010, the castells were in­scribed in the Rep­re­sen­ta­tive List of In­tan­gi­ble Cul­tural Her­itage of Hu­man­ity.

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