Inside the Incredible Human Towers of Catalonia

Great Big Story takes a fascinating look inside the incredible human towers of Catalonia with an interview with Michael Entecott of the Castellers Vilafranca, a group that competes to build spectacular human towers up to 15 meters high.

In Tarragona, Spain, thousands of people gather to witness one of humanity’s strangest and most spectacular contests: building the human towers of Catalonia. Adorned in colorful costume, hundreds of “castellers,” or tower builders, form elaborate human structures that soar into the sky. Containing up to 10 tiers and rising nearly 50 feet high, sometimes, the towers do fall …