Tuesday 6 September 2011

Third castellers team of Vilafranca proves its strength


Vilafranca del Penedès (Alt Penedès) has gained yet another proof of the strength of the local castellers culture. While Castellers de Vilafranca are unchallenged as the best team of Catalonia, Xicots de Vilafranca belong to the relatively few ones which regularly build human towers of eight levels (colles de vuit). To this we can now add Colla Jove Xiquets de Vilafranca - a team founded less than a year ago, but which have just carried out its first exhibition where it completed the “clàssica de 7” – three constructions on the difficulty grade of seven levels (4d7, 3d7 and 2d6) – a solid benchmark in the world of human towers.

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Read more in Catalan: Penedès Digital

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