In front of a crowd of thousands, Catalans of all ages team up to construct complex human towers, or ‘castells’, a powerful display of regional identity and unity – and fun. The human towers are the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016 file photo, members of "Vella de Xiquets de Valls" form their human tower during the 26th ...

Monsters and Critics was embedded with the production team of National Geographic Channel as they filmed tonight’s episode of Explorer. The action comes from the Catalonia region in northeastern Spain ...

The construction of human towers known as "castells" was celebrated at the 25th annual Castells Competition in Tarragona in the Catalonia region of Spain. Castellers Colla Vella Xiquets de Valls form ...

These amazing photos of people constructing complex and terrifying human towers were taken at the 26th Concurs de Castells in Tarragona in the Catalonia region of Spain. The building matter used in ...

Not for Catalans the blood and sweat of the bullring. Instead, they build human towers, known as castells. The main casteller groups (colles de castellers) are from southern Catalonia, in particular ...

Every year in Girona, the local community comes together to build human towers for the annual Sant Narcis festival. It's a big tradition in Catalonia. People say the human towers represent the Catalan ...

Human pyramids are popping up across Spain's northeast region of Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital. They're called castells — "castle" in the local Catalan language. Many neighborhoods in ...

Phil Keoghan and the human towers of Catalunya, which he is documenting for Nat Geo’s Explorer series Heading over to Spain? You can easily detour via Barcelona to the autonomous community of ...