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Castellers are human towers. A team of acrobats or children arrange themselves into a multi-tierd structure or tower, sometimes as high as seven-people. A person then climbs to the top of the tower - they are known as the "anxaneta". Perhaps originated in the Spanish region of Catalonia (unconfirmed source). Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ...

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	Raised primarily in Barcelona as part of a conservative family, Castells became politically active in the student anti-Franco movement as a teenager, moving to Paris to finish his degree at the age of 20.
	Castells lives in Barcelona and Santa Monica, California and is married to Emma Kiselyova.
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