{"id":91173,"date":"2026-06-09T22:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=91173"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:07:09","slug":"the-impressive-human-tower-that-welcomed-pope-leo-xiv-on-his-first-day-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/06\/09\/the-impressive-human-tower-that-welcomed-pope-leo-xiv-on-his-first-day-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"The impressive human tower that welcomed Pope Leo XIV on his first day in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Castellers of Vilafranca welcomed Pope Leo XIV to the Llu\u00eds Companys Olympic Stadium, where the second prayer vigil of his apostolic journey in Spain took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The castellers are a traditional Catalan cultural group known for building human towers made up of dozens of people. Each tower is raised through the coordinated efforts of teams known as <em>colles castelleres. <\/em>Since 2010, the group has been recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. With members of all ages, the castellers represent solidarity, teamwork, trust, and inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Castellers of Vilafranca welcomed Pope Leo XIV to the Llu\u00eds Companys Olympic Stadium, where the second prayer vigil of his apostolic journey in Spain took place. The castellers are a traditional Catalan cultural group known for building human towers made up of dozens of people. Each tower is raised through the coordinated efforts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":91179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z9SWoaSKiqI","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bnccastellers.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bnccastellers.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91183,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91173\/revisions\/91183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}