Christmas markets and Epiphany fairs are the key element of Christmas in Barcelona. Together with the Christmas lights, they transform during the month of December the city 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 Eixample fairs will premiere this year a special lighting installation.
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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.
📅 from November 24 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 on December 15, 16 and 17 to MUHBA Oliva Artés, in the middle of Poblenou’s Central Park. 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.
📅 From December 15 to 17.
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. It will be held from November 25 until December 23, between 10 am and 9 pm, except for Saturdays and the eve of holidays, when it will close at 10 pm.
📅 From November 25 to December 23, 2023.
La Fira de Reis de la Gran Via.
Find the most original Epiphany gift from December 15 to 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 holiday eves, which will close at 10:00 pm.
📅 From December 15 to January 6, 2024.
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 historic Three Kings Fair of Sant Antoni, in Avinguda Mistral, was held again. This year it is maintained, and from yesterday until January 5 more than 50 neighborhood and proximity trade stalls 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 January 2 to 5
Fira de l’Avet d’Espinelves (Espinelves 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