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Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally. Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter @CBM and Google +.
What is a casteller? First, to define castell. A castell is a human tower built at a festival, particularly ones within Catalonia in Spain.
So, a casteller is a person who takes part in these intricate, “human castles.” In November of last year, UNESCO declared castells to be amongst the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. In the city of Tarragona, Spain, castellers gather every two years to see who can build the highest castell. This uniquely Catalan tradition requires strength, balance and a lot of courage.
See this beautiful video of one of the festivals, shot by Mike Randolph, a writer and videographer living in Spain.
Those crazy Spaniards…
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