There are festivals that are remembered. There are those that are told for years. And then there are days like today, when the Plaça de la Vila in Vilafranca seems to want to widen so that everything that happens there can fit. Sant Fèlix has been an absurdity. A Sant Fèlix of the maximums, of permanent extra gamma, of castles that for a long time had not been seen together and of a human tower tension brought to the limit. One of those days when the human tower world looks at the square and understands that it is witnessing something extraordinary. And a festival in which, for the first time in history, the 9-high pillar with folre, manilles and puntals has been unloaded.

The Plaça de les Cols experienced one of the most notable human tower festival days in recent years this Sant Magí. On a day marked by heat, with temperatures above 33 degrees and high humidity, the four Tarragona-based teams completed a masterful performance and, above all, without any falls.

Tarragona is already living the countdown to the Sant Magí festival. The city's four groups are facing the final days of preparation with rehearsals and tests that will finalize the programs they will bring to Plaça de les Cols on Wednesday, August 19. The event, starting at noon, will once again bring together Jove, Xiquets, Sant Pere i Sant Pau, and Serrallo in a festival with very different objectives but with a common denominator: reaching the highest possible level in one of the most important events of the Tarragona summer.

The Santes festival in Mataró this Saturday has once again demonstrated why it is one of the essential dates on the casteller calendar. It did so with all possible ingredients: top-level castells, torrential rain that forced the performance to be interrupted, and an emotional tribute to Mariona, the young woman from Capgrossos who lost her life twenty years ago after an accident at this very festival.

The Castellers de Barcelona have experienced one of the most special weekends in recent years with a tour of Switzerland that combined a historic feat, the promotion of Catalan culture, and the sponsorship of the Castellers de Lausanne. The expedition consisted of around 200 people – 180 of them in uniform – and they turned the Helvetic country into the setting for a journey that goes far beyond the castells.

The Plaça del Blat in Valls has something that escapes any rational explanation. Call it magic, tradition, or simply the effect of bringing together the two groups of Xiquets de Valls at the kilometer zero of the casteller feat. Whatever it is, Sant Joan of 2026 is already part of history. The extreme heat has not prevented the square from once again becoming the stage for one of those days that, over the years, will be remembered.