Valls pays tribute to Antoni Gaudí - Valls pays tribute to Antoni Gaudí

This Saturday, 5 September, Valls paid tribute to Antoni Gaudí with an institutional and popular event at the Basilica of the Sagrada Família. Promoted by the Valls City Council with collaboration from the Junta Constructora de la Sagrada Família, the day celebrated the historical relationship between the architect, the Temple and Valls, the capital of Alt Camp county.

It kicked off in front of the Nativity façade with human towers by Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls and Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls, followed by an institutional event and talk by Dr Armand Puig and Valls Mayor, the Honourable Dolors Farré. Government of Catalonia Director General of Religious Affairs Ramon Bassas and city councillors and deputy mayors from the Valls City Council also attended.

Afterwards, during the international mass, the two groups built castells inside the Temple simultaneously as a symbol of the union of Gaudí’s architecture and the human tower tradition.

The tribute finished in the crypt with the laying of flowers at Gaudí’s tomb and two five-storey human towers with one person in each level.