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Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls

Valls, Alt Camp, Tarragona

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Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls

Historical milestone · Valls, Alt Camp, Tarragona

The Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls, with a pink shirt, is one of the city's two historic castells teams (colles castelleres); its origins go back to 1791, already in the 18th century, when during the Decennial Festivals peasants from Valls and Alcover raised several pillars in honour of the Virgin of the Candelaria, the first documented castells performance in the town. That crew, conservative in outlook, became after the Third Carlist War the present-day Colla Vella, refounded under its definitive name in 1947. It belongs to the select group of eight colles that have achieved extra-range castells, and in 2016 it completed the 4 de 10 amb folre i manilles, the largest human tower ever built. The tradition, an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2010, derives from the old ball de valencians.

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Photo: Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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