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 ...

TARRAGONA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Spain's biggest human towers competition took place on Sunday, with some 11,000 spectators packing the bullring in the northeastern city of Tarragona to watch the daring ...

Team members form a human tower during the Castells contest in Spain; a mass prayer is held for victims of a deadly stampede in Indonesia, protesting a femicide in Ecuador; a dramatic overnight effort ...

A castell is more than a spectacle it’s a symbol of Catalan unity, strength, and endurance. For over 200 years, communities across Catalonia have gathered to build towering human structures, known as ...

Defy fear — and gravity — by building the highest-possible human towers. That was the goal of thousands of people who gathered in a stadium Sunday in northeastern Spain, climbing on top of each other ...