Christmas markets and Epiphany fairs are the key element of Christmas in Barcelona. Along with Christmas lighting and candlelit carols, they transform the city during the month of December into a more welcoming, less hostile place. These are the best Christmas and Epiphany markets you can visit this Christmas 2023-2024 in Barcelona.
Note that the fairs of the Eixample will premiere this year a special lighting installation.
Table Of Contents
- The Fira de Santa Llúcia
- Festivalet
- Design Market
- Sagrada Família Christmas Fair
- Natalis, the Poble Espanyol Christmas fair 2024
- Christmas at the Port 2024-25
- La Fira de Reis de la Gran Via.
- Fira de Reis de Sant Antoni a l'Avinguda Mistral.
- Christmas Market at Fàbrica Lehmann
- Fira de l'Avet d'Espinelves (Avet Fair).
- Bonus: Christmas markets near Barcelona for a getaway.
- All the Christmas fairs and markets in Barcelona
The Fira de Santa Llúcia
This market returns to Barcelona’s Avinguda de la Catedral from November 24 to December 23, 2023. The oldest fair in the world dedicated to the nativity scene and Christmas traditions celebrates 237 years and will install 200 stalls where you can find gifts, such as textile accessories, ceramics, jewelry and costume jewelry or leather. There will be regular entertainment and children’s activities.
In addition to the 200 stalls, here you can also find the Tió Gegant and the Carassa.
📅 from November 29 to December 23, 2023.
Festivalet
Small, local handicrafts are carried this year. Festivalet is an independent fair of handmade and small-scale products. This Christmas it celebrates its 16th edition where there will also be an outdoor gastronomy area with local food. You will find it in the old Fabra i Coats factory in Sant Andreu.
📅 December 16 and 17
Design Market
The Design Market returns from December 13 to 15 with an expanded edition at Fira de Barcelona’s Textile Pavilion (Montjuïc). This year there will be more than 100 exhibitors with fashion products and accessories, contemporary jewelry, publications, graphic elements, furniture, illustration, lighting, games, art and crafts. Outside the building, you can enjoy a gastronomic area, with bar and food trucks.
📅 December 13 to 15
📍Textile Pavilion of Fira de Barcelona (Montjuïc)
Sagrada Família Christmas Fair
The Sagrada Familia Christmas Fair represents the most deeply rooted festive market in the Eixample district. Here there is no shortage of nativity scenes and statuettes, gifts and artisanal gastronomic products such as nougat, cheese and sausages.
📅 From November 23 to December 23, 2023.
⏰Between 10 am and 9 pm, except on Saturdays and the eve of public holidays, when it will close at 10 pm.
Natalis, the Poble Espanyol Christmas fair 2024
As every year, Poble Espanyol becomes a Christmas village in the heart of Barcelona, Natalis, and, of course, also has its own Christmas fair. You have all the information about Natalis in our article.
November 30, December 1, December 6 to 8, December 14 and 15, December 20 to 29 (except 25 and 26) and January 2 to 5.
Christmas at the Port 2024-25
Nadal al Port is one of the most exciting Christmas fairs in Barcelona, with a whole Christmas universe installed in front of the sea, with markets, attractions and Christmas lights everywhere. Check all the information in our article.
📅 From November 29 to January 6, 2025.
La Fira de Reis de la Gran Via.
Find the most original Epiphany gift from December 15 until January 6, 2024 at the Fira de Reis. It will be located on the sidewalks of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, between Muntaner and Rocafort streets. The opening hours are 10:00 am until 9:00 pm, except on Saturdays and the eve of public holidays, which will close at 10:00 pm. On Epiphany night it will close in the early hours of the morning.
📅 From December 14 to January 6, 2025.
Fira de Reis de Sant Antoni a l’Avinguda Mistral.
We already explained it to you last year: a quarter of a century after having closed its doors due to works, the historical Three Kings Fair of Sant Antoni, in Avinguda Mistral, was celebrated again. This year it is maintained, and from January 2 until January 5 more than 50 stalls of neighborhood and proximity trade have been installed in the pedestrian avenue of the neighborhood.
In addition, family activities, children’s workshops, chocolate, street theater and other surprises. You can check the program on the event’s website. Like the Fira de Reis de la Gran Via, on the night of Epiphany, the stalls will extend their opening hours until after midnight.
📍Avinguda Mistral (Sant Antoni)
📅 From 2 to 5 January 20254
Christmas Market at Fàbrica Lehmann
The Lehmann Factory, a hidden treasure of industrial architecture on the left side of the Eixample, consolidates itself as one of the most attractive plans for this Christmas in Barcelona. For years, this 1893 factory, now converted into a creative space, adds to the festive offer of the city with its Christmas Market of Artisans, a perfect place to find unique and special gifts for this holiday season.
📍Lehmann Factory
📅 Saturday, December 14, from 11:00 to 20:00, and Sunday, December 15, from 11:00 to 18:00.
Fira de l’Avet d’Espinelves (Avet Fair).
The Fira de l’Avet d’Espinelves, in Osona is one of the most unique Christmas fairs. It takes place from 2 to 10 December in a charming place where you can still feel the smell of the villages of yesteryear in winter, firewood and fireplace. There you will find Christmas fir trees that are sold with root ball so that they can be replanted again.
It is the place where the Barcelona pixapins have traditionally gone to get their Christmas tree is an hour from Barcelona, near Vic. This year they expect to welcome 90,000 visitors and sell around 3,000 Christmas trees.
📍 Espinelves (Osona)
📅 December 2 to 10
Bonus: Christmas markets near Barcelona for a getaway.
If you’re from Barcelona (or you’ve been here for a while) you surely know the infinite amount of Christmas markets that sprout around the city at this time of the year. From the traditional ones like Santa Llúcia to other more modern ones like the Design Market, in winter the locals stay, rightly, more in the city, and enjoy Christmas in the streets of Barcelona.
But at Christmas Catalonia is also full of life and traditional Christmas fairs and markets that cover the Catalan geography of Christmas and traditions that perhaps you did not know. From the Fira de l’Avet d’Espinelves, the place where the Catalans have always gone to look for their Christmas tree to the Fira del Tió de Solsona, where people go to look for the Tió.
So, in order for you not to miss Christmas outside Barcelona (or to discover it), we bring you some traditional Christmas fairs near Barcelona for a good Christmas getaway.
📍Several locations
Eight Christmas markets and villages in the south of France for a fantasy getaway.
Christmas in Barcelona is wonderful, but a getaway to the South of France to celebrate it among green meadows, vineyards and medieval villages, too. You probably already know Le Barcarès, the famous Christmas village, but what you may not know is that there are a number of municipalities near the French border that organize their own Christmas markets.
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All the Christmas fairs and markets in Barcelona
In addition to those mentioned, in the city of Barcelona many Christmas markets and fairs are held during the holidays in the neighborhoods. We tell you all there are so you do not miss any of them.
Fira de Brocanters – ‘Mercat gòtic d’antiguitats’ per Nadal i Reis
📅 When: From 27/12/2024 to 04/01/2025
📍 Location: Avinguda de la Catedral
“Montbau Market 2024” Mercat Solidari de Nadal.
📅 When: 15/12/2024
📍 Location: Pla de Montbau 1
Fira de Nadal at c. Degà Bahí
📅 When: 14/12/2024
📍 Location: C. Degà Bahí, 86
“Nadal als Mercats”: Mercat del Llibre per Reis.
📅 When: From 02/01/2025 to 04/01/2025
📍 Location: C. Comte d’Urgell 1, (Eixample)
XVIII Fira de Nadal i Reis de Diagonal – Les Corts
📅 When: From 15/12/2024 to 05/01/2025
📍 Location: Av. Diagonal 593 – 595, (Les Corts)
“Nadal als Mercats”: Mercat del Llibre per Nadal.
When: From 19/12/2024 to 21/12/2024
📍 Location: C. Comte d’Urgell 1, (Eixample)
Fira de Nadal at the marquee of Via Júlia.
When: From 04/12/2024 to 04/01/2025
📍 Location: Via Júlia marquee (between Batllori i Mas Duran)
49th Fira de Nadal at Plaça Sarrià.
When: From 14/12/2024 to 15/12/2024
📍 Location: Plaça de Sarrià
Nadal Shopping Day in Barceloneta
📅 When: 21/12/2024
📍 Location: Botigues de la Barceloneta (Ciutat Vella)
Fira de productes nadalencs a la Plaça de Sants.
📅 When: From 28/11/2024 to 23/12/2024
📍 Location: Plaça de Sants 4 – 5, (Sants-Montjuïc)
Fira de productes tradicionals catalans de la plaça del Pi.
📅 When: Acte permanent
📍 Location: Pl. del Pi 1, (Ciutat Vella)
Les Tres Torres Christmas Market
📅 When: From 14/12/2024 to 15/12/2024
📍 Location: C. Nena Casas 37-47, (Sarrià-Sant Gervasi)
Mercat de la Rambla de Nadal.
📅 When: From 21/12/2024 to 22/12/2024
📍 Location: Rambla de Badal 70 – 76, (Sants-Montjuïc)
Circular Street Market
📅 When: 22/12/2024
📍 Location: C. de Roc Boronat 116-126, (Sant Martí)