With autumn having just begun, it’s open season on pumpkins, spiders and black cats. Halloween is just around the corner and that’s why we bring you plans to give you a full month of things to do. Some are free, some are pretty cheap, but most are spooky and very much into the mood:.
Table Of Contents
- Visit the city's creepiest abandoned buildings
- View Rocafort Station, the Barcelona subway horror movie
- Halloween at Bosc de les Fades
- Tour Barcelona in search of its most tenebrous stories...
- ... or get out of town and visit the scariest abandoned village
- Krüeguer Hotel in Tibidabo
- Bring out your detective skills in Murder Mystery: Murder in the House of Silk
- Halloween at the Wax Museum of Barcelona
- Tour the cemeteries' monuments to death
- The village of terror of Poble Espanyol
- Go to Barcelona's most unknown tunnel of terror
- End up rejecting the modern and embrace tradition by eating chestnuts...
- ... or panellets
- Terror concerts at the Monumental Club
- Modernist Halloween at the Palau de la Música
- Visit the terrifying Alien museum hidden in a garage in Barcelona
- Bonus track: horror getaway at WAH Madrid
Visit the city’s creepiest abandoned buildings
Buildings in an advanced state of collapse and abandonment abound in Barcelona. In these places nothing has to happen to you, but obviously you have to be careful and, above all, try not to occupy private spaces that derive in a small complaint. Leaving that aside, we have made a complete guide of the best abandoned places in the city to organize an excursion with your friends this Halloween in Barcelona.
Various locations in Barcelona.
Free! But go easy.
View Rocafort Station, the Barcelona subway horror movie
That’s right, there is a Barcelona subway station on which weighs a black legend. It is the Rocafort Station, about which there is a story so well known that now even has a horror movie that has just been released. Take advantage of this Halloween to spend fear inside the cinema (and then spend it inside the subway).
Halloween at Bosc de les Fades
After the abandoned places hidden in the city, we bring you a more urban plan, the Bosc de les Fades is a hidden bar next to the Wax Museum (a visit that we also recommend for Halloween) and is decorated with the fantasy and charm that deserves the party of fear. On the occasion of this party they always organize events and promotions to have a great time (and scary) in the most magical bar in Barcelona.
Barcelona Wax Museum. Passatge de la Banca, 7 (Drassanes).
Tour Barcelona in search of its most tenebrous stories…
Barcelona, like any self-respecting city, has a lot of horror stories. From the vampiress of the Raval to the scary stories that the city’s Metro keeps underground, Barcelona is full of horror stories and black legends that deserve to be told and travelled through.
If you prefer to go with an experienced guide to discover the ghosts of the city, you can always sign up for the Barcelona Ghosts Night Tour.
Arc de Triomf. Passeig de Lluís Companys (Arc de Triomf).
… or get out of town and visit the scariest abandoned village
La Mussara is an empty village. Or emptied. Or ghost. Empty because in the mid-twentieth century a phylloxera plague left its inhabitants unemployed and forced them to leave this village in the Baix Camp, in Tarragona.
Ghost because from there have multiplied the legends of hikers who, visiting the village, claim to have experienced paranormal events: from doors to another dimension to satanic signs… True or not, the best thing is to go and see for yourself, and nothing like Halloween to take advantage and make that visit.
La Mussara (Tarragona)
Free!
Krüeguer Hotel in Tibidabo
Undoubtedly, the scariest place in Barcelona. We have already told you about Tibidabo, and therefore, one of its most iconic attractions.The Hotel Krüeger has been scaring the locals for many years and being one of the most sought after places in the park.
In front of the thrill of the roller coaster the fear that is passed in this hotel, where the first person and the last of the group that makes the tour suffer the consequences of the fearsome characters that are housed in their rooms. The scariest ride you can do for Halloween in Barcelona.
The park, in addition, celebrates for Halloween, la Noche de las Almas, a puppet show that will scare the little ones in the family.
Parc d’atraccions Tibidabo. Pl. del Tibidabo, 3 and 4.
General admission to the entire Tibidabo park + funicular to go up to 35€.
Bring out your detective skills in Murder Mystery: Murder in the House of Silk
Murder Mystery is a good example of how to feel that kind of fear that has nothing to do with terror, but with the psychic. This immersive game of 90 minutes duration turns you into the protagonist of a Detective Montalbano novel, where you will have to investigate and solve a murder yourself. Clues, interviews and many mysteries that you will have to follow to the real culprit. The Silk Palace will become the scene of a crime throughout the fall, with sessions open until November 1. Will you manage to solve the Murder Mystery?
La casa de la seda. Carrer de Sant Pere Més Alt, 1 (Urquinaona).
Halloween at the Wax Museum of Barcelona
If we were in front of the Hotel Krüeger and they made us close our eyes and open them again in front of the Cerano Museum we would notice the difference. The museum square, hidden behind La Rambla, is a creepy place, and entering it and suddenly seeing some of the figures looking at us from above is a guarantee of a good scare.
Barcelona Wax Museum. Passatge de la Banca, 7.
Tour the cemeteries’ monuments to death
Cemeteries are incredible places whose presence in our lives we have normalized. True monuments of stone and sculpture dedicated to eternal death, inserted in the middle of cities that seek to live faster and faster.
Now that it is getting dark soon, few things are darker than strolling through a cemetery and seeing the sculptures cut out against the backlight against a sky barely lit by the moon. Montjuï c cemetery is one of the most famous, but few sculptures like the “Kiss of Death” in the Poblenou cemetery reflect the cult of the woman with the sickle.
In short, terrifying walks that serve, in addition, to know our history and our city and rethink our traditions and customs.
Cementiri de Montjuïc. C/ de la Mare de Déu de Port, 56, 58 (Sants-Montjüc)..
Free admission.
The village of terror of Poble Espanyol
A village of terror in the middle of Barcelona. This is what Poble Espanyol will become from October 19 to November 3 when, on weekends, during the day, it hosts the Creepy Family, a village that has been cursed and where families will have to solve a game of clues and enter two haunted houses with hilariously terrifying characters and lots of mystery.
This year, for the first time, there will also be a version for adults more daring, a whole experience for true lovers of terror and fear: Creepy Extreme, which will take place from October 21 to November 4 from 7 pm to midnight. Visitors will take a tour guided by more than 30 actors through the spaces of the enclosure, expressly set, and will have to go -if they dare- through the two Scream Houses.
Av. de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 13, (Sants-Montjüc).
From 10€
Go to Barcelona’s most unknown tunnel of terror
In Barcelona it seems not, but there are still secrets. Some of them terrifying. The tunnel of fear of Trinitat Vella is one of them. A tunnel of terror that was born ten years ago as a neighborhood initiative has been consolidating, and already welcomes more than a thousand visitors. This year it will be on Friday October 27 and admission is free.
These come to a neighborhood that is off the beaten track to spend fear in an attraction built and organized by the neighbors, and that has nothing to envy to the other activities on this list.
Centre Cívic Trinitat Vella (Trinitat Vella)
End up rejecting the modern and embrace tradition by eating chestnuts…
Indeed, as the meme says: Reject modernity, embrace tradition. Halloween is fine, but the true Catalan tradition, the one of a lifetime, is the Castañada, which may not be scary, but it is much more delicious.
Or is there anything more pleasant than the smell of roasted chestnuts in the streets of the city? If you haven’t smelled them yet, you don’t know where to find them, so you can consult this map to find out where they are and binge say adéu a halloween i benvinguda Castanyada.
Tour the best chestnut stands here.
Entry from €.
… or panellets
The other pillar on which the Catalan autumn tradition is based. Of Arab origin, but more Catalan than pa amb tomàquet, the panellet is that sweet sin that, if it existed all year round, would condemn the Catalan people to diabetes.
Its history is interesting, like that of any tradition, and its consumption, a scandal: in Barcelona more than 200 tons of a sweet whose unit usually weighs no more than 30g are consumed. Which tells us that, no matter how much Halloween is advertised, the panellet is still the real Catalan Halloween.
Tour of the best pastry shops here.
Terror concerts at the Monumental Club
Monumental Club opens the autumn season with a special Halloween edition on November 2 with a Fango party with the concert of Depresión Sonora and Fango Kids with Reggae per Xics.
As usual, the event will also feature family activities and a varied gastronomic offer for all tastes, which will be accompanied by the most terrifying costumes, which attendees will wear to celebrate the occasion.
📍Plaza de la Monumental. Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 749 [Metro: Monumental].
💸Tickets from €8 for Monumental Kids and from €11 for Monumental Club.
📅November 2nd
Modernist Halloween at the Palau de la Música
Few settings are more suitable for a horror fest than a century-old former opera house. Walking among thick columns, winding staircases and imposing sculptures while listening to spooky music is a perfect plan for Halloween, and that’s why we’re happy to explain the plan that the Palau de la Música has put together for the darkest night of all.
The beautiful modernist auditorium of the Borne has prepared, for the second consecutive year, a Halloween concert, which, on this occasion will consist of the representation of Robert Wiene’s ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ by Juan de la Rubia, one of the best organ improvisers in the world.
Palau de la Música (C/ Palau de la Música, 4-6)
💸Various prices
📅 October 31
Visit the terrifying Alien museum hidden in a garage in Barcelona
From the outside no one would say so. But in an anonymous place in Barcelona hides one of the most cinephile corners of the world, an alien fantasy that allows us to travel from La Sagrera to a Hollywood set just crossing a shutter. And not a set, but one of the most iconic and terrifying films in the history of science fiction. Dear readers, welcome to Alien.
The guided tour is given by Luis himself, a fan of science fiction and the saga, who built this museum when all the pieces he collected no longer fit at home. While he was working as a chauffeur, he bought a place to house a museum, already thinking of making a visitable site.
Juan de Garay, 31 bajos
💸20€
Bonus track: horror getaway at WAH Madrid
Madrid, Halloween, musical shows, terrifying costumes, an immersive experience, endless party and many international dishes. This is WAH Madrid, a musical show with gastronomy and lots of partying that is also an opportunity to get into a dystopian world for a few hours. WAH is that place where music sounds, despite everything (even though the Omega Nation insists on banning it). WAH Madrid is the resistance, is the show, the flamenco, the rock, the electronic… are the songs of our life interpreted live and live.
For Halloween, WAH prepares a special week (from October 25 to November 1) so that, between costumes, masks and fantasy, we can taste the international dishes of its impressive Food Hall, dance and sing in its great theater and, for those who want more, finish until the early hours of the morning in its after party. The perfect getaway if you take a long weekend this Halloween.
IFEMA (Avenida Partenón, 5)
📅 From October 25 to November 1.