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 ...

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 ...

TARRAGONA, Spain – The tradition of building human towers, or castells, dates back to the 18th century and takes place during festivals in Catalonia in northeast Spain. "Colles," or teams, compete to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of “Castellers de Sants” complete their human tower during the 27th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain, on Oct. 7 ...

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 ...

Madeleine relaxes at Port Aventura The old bullring, packed with thousands of tense spectators held its breath as two small children scrambled to the top of the human tower, like a pair of little ...

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 ...

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 ...