The castellers and the devils are both symbolic features of the Catalan culture
The declaration of the human towers as Immaterial Cultural Heritage by the Unesco has given a boost to the Catalan tradition, as also to the fire, another of the central points of the culture. There’s no popular festival in which there’s no a devils show. One of the best shows in Catalonia is the hellish Patum of Berga, in which firecrackers are used to dismiss the Lent season. The tradition of building human towers in the Catalan squares started out in Valls (Tarragona) more than 200 years ago, and even though at the start is was just a local practice, it spread to the rest of Catalonia to the point that now is the international image of the Region.
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