Our society emphasizes the superstar over the coordinated efforts of the group. We naturally focus on the Messis of soccer, the Michael Jordans of basketball and the Russell Wilsons of football (of ...

The 27th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain. The ‘Castellers’ who build the human towers with precise techniques compete in groups, know as ‘colles’, at local festivals with the aim of ...

I'm standing in a town square in the small city of Vilafranca del Penedès in Spain. It's time for Fiesta Mayor, the city's annual local heritage festival that happens every August. The festival ...

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Building human towers, called castells, was first documented near the city of Tarragona, Spain in the 18th century. A Catalan cultural tradition, the practice spread throughout Catalonia during the ...

Forget the modern-day competitions that get all of the headlines and glory in the back pages of a newspaper – this is the ultimate team sport. With traditions dating back to the 18th century in ...

Revellers reached for the clouds when they formed sky-scraping human towers at a festival in India. Spanish 'castellers' from the Catalonia region of Spain brought their tradition to the Dahi Handi ...

For the “govindas” of western Maharashtra, forming multi-storeyed human pyramids on the festival of Janmashtami has been a serious competitive endeavour for decades. At stake are lakhs of rupees in ...