Castellers of Catalonia

In Catalonia there are "castellers" who form human pyramids.  This was part of the Festival of St Pierre in Prades.  While Prades is in France, it is in "Catalan du Nord" - Catalogne Nord - that refers to the territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the  Pyrenees in 1659, which is broadly the French department of the Pyrenees-Orientales.  Catalans have long memories!

What stunned me was the bravery of the young girls and boys who systematically and carefully climbed to the top - and then slid down again.  It must be one of the few pastimes that as you grow up you go down!