{"id":238335,"date":"2025-07-04T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238335\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:41:11","slug":"watch-out-for-human-towers-this-weekend-at-the-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238335\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for human towers this weekend at The Mound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Edinburgh group celebrates 10 years of human towers this weekend\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Colla Castellera d\u2019Edinburgh, a group that builds castells \u2013 human towers that are a vibrant tradition from Catalonia- is celebrating its 10th\u00a0anniversary this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Castells are recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. The Colla Castellera d\u2019Edinburgh will celebrate its 10th anniversary joined by the Castellers of London on the 5th of July. There will be a free performance at 11AM at the Mound Precinct (in the case of rain this will be moved to St Peter\u2019s Hall), followed by a ticketed event organised by the Centre Catal\u00e0 d\u2019Esc\u00f2cia at St Peter\u2019s Hall, where paella will be sold by Lovely Paella from 1pm and family-friendly activities run from 2pm, and rounded off with a concert by the Catalan Folk band \u201cla Cosina\u201d at 7pm at Cabaret Voltaire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Colla Castellera d\u2019Edinburgh will be attempting six-level human towers, first achieved on home turf at this years\u2019 Meadows Festival. These towers, measuring approximately 7 metres in height and weighing over half a ton, represent dedication, strength, trust, and teamwork. <\/p>\n<p>All information about the event can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collacastelleraedinburgh.com\/10thanniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.collacastelleraedinburgh.com\/10thanniversary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSC04852.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604383\"  \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/07\/watch-out-for-human-towers-this-weekend-at-the-mound\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751661671_876_pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/07\/watch-out-for-human-towers-this-weekend-at-the-mound\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751661671_606_print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/phyllis-stephen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751661671_966_Phyllis-Summer-2022-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-100x100 size-100x100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founding Editor of The Edinburgh Reporter.<br \/>Edinburgh-born multimedia journalist and iPhoneographer.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edinburgh group celebrates 10 years of human towers this weekend\u00a0 The Colla Castellera d\u2019Edinburgh, a group that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4154,4155,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-238335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-local-news","11":"tag-edinburgh-news","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114796907039914929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}