On November 11, 1878, they say that three pillar attempts were made in Altafulla, and the third was the good one, it was unloaded. We refer to pd8fm carried out in the municipality of Baix Gaià. 145 years later the Colla Vella Xiquets de Valls I tried it again, but they left it loaded because the structure sank when the ‘enxaneta’ had already gone down. Those in the pink shirt tried it this Sunday, after having a very good day, at the Diada de les Cultures. They had never gotten it in that place.
First face to face of the Vella Xiquets de Valls and the Castellers of Vilafranca. Both ‘colles’ arrived in Altafulla wanting to take a step forward, and shared a square with the Tarragona Xiquets and the Castellers of Altafulla. Those in the pink shirt wanted to download the pd8fm on the pou square. A pillar that had been unloaded for the last time in the town in 1878, and by the Colla Vella itself. Therefore, it would have been the first pd8fm downloaded in Altafulla of the modern era of ‘castells’.
The two ‘colles castelleres’, Verds and Vella, were aware that they had to put on a very good dyad to be able to put the icing on the cake at the end of the performance. In the first round they unloaded the 4d9f, both ‘castells’ worked, but solving the problems well. The ‘matalassers’ and the hosts were also doing their job, to face the particular challenges; the first unloading the second 5d8 of the year, and the second loading the 4d7, which gave way when all the children had already left, because a ‘segon’ lost position. An anecdote.
3d9f in second round
The performance continued at a good pace, the second round began less than an hour after its start, and la Vella erased the ghosts of last week, downloading a good 3d9f, which had been left in charge only seven days ago, showing that it had only been an accident. The villafranquinos also continued their program, with a very good 3d9f, to continue gaining confidence in the face of the challenges they wanted to face. In the third round, La Vella kept accelerating the pace to try the pd8fm in the round of pillars, and for this reason he unloaded a good 5d8 in the last ’round of castells’.
But, instead, one of the key moments of the Greens, who fronted the 2d9fm. A ‘castell’ that had caused them a scare in the rehearsal on Friday, but that did not make them lower their arms. It had already been two hours, but the Verds wanted to prove it, getting ahead of the pd8fm of the Colla Vella. The ‘castell’ was disassembled in attemptbecause when the ‘cassoleta’ was about to be placed, he decided to back out. The villafranquinos ended up discarding the 2d9fm, and executed the 7d8.
The Verds also decided to park the ‘pillar of merit’, since its components had other commitments, but the Colla Vella faced the challenge when the performance had already started for more than two hours. There was absolute silence in the Plaza del Pou when the ‘terç’ was placed, and the ‘gralles’ began to sound. The pillar went up well, but after being loaded and when the ‘enxaneta’ was already down, it ended up sinking. The ‘cap de colla’ of those in the pink shirt, Manel Urbano, was very happy with the response of the ‘colla’, and recognized that they wanted to “make a homage to the ancestors. With this, he added that there is a pending challenge and that the performance had been very good. Since Sant Félix in 2016 they did not have a pillar left as charged.
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The Castellers de Altafulla and the Xiquets de Tarragona took a giant step forward in the Diada de les Cultures. The ‘matalassers’ in the second round with the first ‘castell’ of 9, the 3d9fwho accompanied him from the 4d8 to which they want to go up one more floor in the future, signing his best performance of the season.
AND the hosts signed one of the best performances in their history downloading the 5d7‘castell’ that they had not done since 2018, and they also downloaded the 4d7a, a ‘castell’ that had not been downloaded for 11 years, since 2012.