13.12.2010 09:43
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The first penya of castellers was officially inaugurated last Saturday with two towers at the penya’s headquarters, which is the same one of Castellers de Barcelona.
212 Carrer Bilbao held a meeting part of the penyes world in Barcelona. The PB Castellers de
Barcelona was being officially inaugurated, and that was something to celebrate. FC Barcelona was
represented by director of the Social Comission Santi Casas, and director of Penyes Comission
Elvira Pou. Former football player Pep Moratalla, who gave the penya a shirt with its name on the
back, also attended the event. Furthermore, a crest with the name of the penya was unveiled, so as
to let these are the headquarters of both the penya and Castellers.
Castells exhibition
The new penya showed all the attendants what they can do. In just a few minutes the raised
two towers, flying a Catalan and a Barça flags from their top.
Castells and Barça, identities of Catalunya
This penya has something that makes it special. This is the first one whose members are
castellers, and therefore they represent two rather significative cultural features of
Catalunya: on one side,
castells, awarded as human cultural heritage by UNESCO, and, on the other, FC Barcelona,
reputed all over the world.
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