Human tower spectacle on Nanjing Road
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| Spanish castellers build a "human tower" on Shanghai's Nanjing Road pedestrian precinct on Sunday.[China Daily/Gao Erqiang] |
A team of more than 200 castellers provided a "human tower" spectacle for Sunday shoppers on Shanghai's Nanjing Road pedestrian precinct as part of the start of Catalonian week at Expo 2010 Shanghai.
A castell is a human tower built traditionally at festivals in Catalonia, a region of Spain. At these festivals, several colles castelleres, or teams, build and sustain a tower structure for a certain period of time.
The Sunday show was the first time this unique Catalonian tradition had been presented in China, and the result, at Nanjing Road's Century Square, was spectacular, according to onlookers. The group, La Colla Vella de Valls, is among the top three of the six major casteller teams in Catalonia.
The team performed at the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
Catalonia, with its capital city of Barcelona, is located in northwest Spain. It is one of the most economically developed regions of the country, said Jordi Fortuny Batalla, representative of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
La Colla Vella de Valls will be building their human towers at the Europe Square in the Expo Garden every day for the coming week.
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