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![]() Local festivals, particularly in summer months, may also include castellers, a relatively serious event where young men and women in traditional costume (xiquets) form human towers to the strains of an orchestra (cobla) announcing the different steps in the building process. This extraordinary Catalan speciality, usually held in the plaza in front of the mayorīs office (ajuntament) is frought with danger for its participants. Performers deftly climb onto one anotherīs shoulders to form a human pyramid. The better of the colles (performing groups) build varying structures as much as nine stories high, topped by a small boy or girl called the weathercock. How they donīt all get injured when the castells collapses - as they often do - is a mystery. |
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