Cultural Activity 2: Castelles/Barcino Sign/Gellato!!!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

sunday funday!

 February 13th,2011
Castelles, Gelato and Bo-Da-b's!


hey there you guys,so today was one of my most FAVORITE days thus far in barca. 
I  knew there was this festival today, not sure the name, so i woke up all the girls, we left around 12 to go to this square in town called placa sant jaume, its a really old part of town from ancient times

 so this festival that is super cultural goes on there, they have these people called castelles, who crawl on top of eachtoher until they form this HUGE human pyramid , standing on eachothers shoulders until they are 4-5 people (levels) high, as you get higher and higher the peopel get smaller so at  the  3-4 story level of peopel there will be these little gorgeous  toddlers standing on shoulders ! it is nuts, it seems dangerous, but my friends learned in class that they have a bunch of people standing around to catch if there in an accident, and they practice so much there basically never are falls : here are some examples

( one of the babies on top, zoomed in, but he is on 3 levels of shoulders! how gorgeous is he)

the HUGE pyramid 

then we went touring around by the church area and stumbled upon this sign that is made out of huge metal letters that spell out B A R C I N O which is what barcelona used to be called in roman times...so of course we used this as a photo opp, and climbed all over them etc,

then we got gelato as per usual, we are actually obsessed with gelato it is amazing, and headed home...but all day was just so realxing and warm and sunny probably mid 60's! It is so nice to just explore some days and walk around in the sun and enjoy the city. Sometimes you can forget that you are actually in spain, and its nice to remind ourselves every once in a while by just wandering around town for a few hours.