Traditional Catalan Castells contest in Tarragona

Members of a castell (castle) group compete in the final of the 30th Castells Contest at the Tarraco Arena Placa (TAP) in Tarragona, Catalonia, northeastern Spain, 04 October 2026. The iconic tradition of Catalan castells, which involves building human towers, was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010.