Members of the “Colla Xiquets del Serrallo” human tower team form a “castell” during the XXVI human towers, or castells, competetion in Tarragona on October 1, 2016. These human towers, built traditionally in festivals within Catalonia, gather several teams that attempt to build and dismantle a tower structure.
The 71st edition of “La Vuelta” Tour of Spain runs from Aug. 20 to Sept. 11. The Vuelta is made up of 21 stages.
Had enough salad and gazpacho? Here’s another way to use up tomatoes. The annual “Tomatina” tomato fight was this morning in Bunol, a village outside Valencia, Spain. Drawing from a 160-ton cache, for an hour or so, thousands of people, many of them tourists, lobbed the ripe fruit like snowballs, bathing each other and the surrounding streetscape in pulp and juice.
Jockeys and their mounts race along the beach during the annual beach horse race in Loredo, near the northern Spanish city of Santander, on July 24, 2016.
In Vitoria, northern Spain, even if a resident’s ordinary market is closed for St. James’ Day, they won’t want for garlic. Every year on July 25 producers from all around Spain converge on the Basque Country capital for a traditional garlic fair.
The San Fermín festival is held every year in the Spanish city of Pamplona on July 6 and lasts eight days.
Images from the Corpus bullfight festival at the bullring of Granada, Spain on May 25, 2016.
At 264 million pounds, and 217 feet, Royal Caribbean’s ‘Harmony of the Seas’ is the world’s biggest-ever cruise ship. The widest cruise ship ever built, its 1,187-feet length makes it 164 feet longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower. The ship is headed for Southampton in southern England and is to embark on its official maiden voyage on May 22 to its new home port of Barcelona.
Spanish matadors perform with fighting bulls during the San Isidro bullfighting fair in Madrid, Spain.
Fearing health risks from vast, toxic smoke clouds, Spanish officials ordered nearby residents to wait out the fire elsewhere.
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