David Sim is the Associate Picture Editor at Newsweek (London). His responsibilities include managing the website's image gallery content and producing captivating photo reports on global news events.

They are the soaring human towers that have become the pride of Catalonia over hundreds of years of carefully honed tradition. Hundreds of people compete in the region every year to create the highest ...

TARRAGONA, Spain (Reuters) - Protesters calling for Catalan independence kicked off Spain's bi-annual human towers building competition on Sunday which is being held for the first time since Catalonia ...

TARRAGONA, Spain (AP) — Dozens of people squeeze together, pressing as tight as they can get. The stronger the foundation they build, the less likely their human tower will collapse. As children and ...

As we set out on our walk, the Mediterranean sun shines down through the tall buildings that line the streets of the Eixample. This district in Barcelona is laid out in a precise grid pattern of wide ...

The town of Valls in Catalonia on Sunday hosted its first traditional “castell” – or human tower – event without crowd limits or other virus measures since the start of the pandemic. The spectacle – ...

In front of a crowd of thousands, Catalans of all ages team up to construct complex human towers, or ‘castells’, a powerful display of regional identity and unity – and fun. The human towers are the ...

Catalonia's famous human towers knows as "castellers" returned on Thursday (June 24) to Blat square in the Catalan city of Valls after over a year due to the pandemic. Catalonia's famous human towers ...

TARRAGONA, Spain (AP) — Dozens of people squeeze together, pressing as tight as they can get. The stronger the foundation they build, the less likely their human tower will collapse. As children and ...