Halloween parties in Barcelona: movida and monsters!
Although the modern Halloween is based on traditions from the USA, its origins can actually be found in Celtic Britain. So Halloween is celebrated in Spain and Barcelona in the same way as in other European cities, with Halloween fancy dress parties featuring ghouls, ghosts, witches and zombies.
If you are planning to spend your Halloween in Barcelona, fun is guaranteed, because there are loads of scheduled events that you cannot miss out. Here you will find our program and some advice that will help you spend your Halloween weekend in Barcelona, check it out!
Many of the parties will be on the weekend before Halloween night which falls on a Monday this year. There are Halloween parties at most of Barcelona tops clubs like Opium Mar, Shoko, Monasterio and many others.
There is a special Halloween edition of the Barcelona Anti-karaoke on Monday 31 October. For the occasion, Barcelona Antikaraoke will be moving to the large dance floor in the Apolo club. The show will be presented by Rachel Arieff combining humour, parodies and underground karaoke. [Price: 8 € with a drink included.]
Halloween at Port Aventura. As every year, the theme park Port Aventura is organising a Halloween party so that you can have a real spine-tingling time surrounded by pumpkins, monsters, vampires, mystery, pyrotechnic shows and music from beyond the grave. [Price: 44 €, reductions 36 €.]
Nocturna Halloween Festival 2011. This is a great music festival organized in the occasion of Halloween. It takes place at the Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona. You can attend dozens of concerts that will take place on the evening of October 31, until 6:00 in the morning. [Price: 20 € with a drink included.]
The day after Halloween is 1st November, a public holiday in Spain called “Todos los Santos” (All Saints). On 1st November you can enjoy the Catalan tradition called La Castanyada, the Chestnut Festival. Moreover, the All Saints Day is an old Mexican tradition, during which the Board Ruta de Altares proposes a circuit around several bars, shops and galleries that celebrate this evening in Mexican style. In line with tradition, altars are set up, floral offerings are made you can admire spectacular and colorful altars during the so-called Altar Walk.
But most of all, whatever it is that you decide to do, don’t forget the most important thing. Without a costume, Halloween would not be what it is! So if you forgot it at home, find one as fast as you can!
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Andrea Guerriero Hi, I'm Andrea, a travel blogger, web programmer, seo apprentice and amateur photographer based in Milan. I love reading, I love music. I love to travel but only if I leave on a mission! I've been traveling through most of Europe and I love writing about it. I love photography, especially as a way to document experiences, places, events. My Nikon D300 camera is always with me, and it helps me in sharing my life with the rest of the world. Getting in touch with new people, different life styles and foreign traditions, and write about it, is all I can ask for.
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