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Catalan traditions - Castellers - Castells - Human Tower building. Els Castellers de Barcelona. This "colla" (group) of "castellers" (human-tower builders) celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2009. They were founded in 1969 making it the fourth oldest "colla" (casteller group) still active in Barcelona. Since 1987, the Castellers de Barcelona have managed to build several 8-level towers every year and since 1998, at least one 9-level castle each year. Another popular and difficult structure is the 4 person moving pillar. The Barcelona castellers perform all over the world. They train from February and in Barcelona the first annual performance by the castellers is usually at the Santa Eulàlia festivities in February. Then the Castellar season continues until November. Such is the popularity and pride of the this Catalan tradition that the castells tradition was listed on Unesco's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in November 2010.

go  Pictures of Castellers in Barcelona at Merce Festival
go  Video report by BBC about castellers
go  Castellers de Barcelona
go  Castellers de la Sagrada Família
go  Castellers de la Vila de Grécia
go  Castellers de Sants
go  Castellers del Poble-Sec

Visitors are welcome to go and watch the Castellers de Barcelona practise sessions which take place every week at Carrer de Bilbao 212 near Clot metro station (Red line L1 or Purple L 2). Training sessions are usually on Tuesdays at 19.30, Thursdays at 19.30 and Saturdays at 19.00, from February to November (August closed for holidays).

Another kind of human tower building is called the Falcon discipline named after a Czech tradition called "Sökol" which means falcon. Falcon structures were popular in Catalonia at the beginning of the 20th century but then fell out of favour. In Barcelona a young group called the Barcelona Falcons has revived this tradtion of making falcon structures and they peformed first at the Saint Eulalia festivities in 2003.

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  Falcons de Barcelona
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  Colla Falcons de Vilafranca

Monument to Castellers.
The city of Barcelona plans to dedicate a 30 m high work of art by sculptor Antoni Llena on Plaça de Sant Miquel in the Born area of Barcelona in 2011.




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