With autumn just started, it’s open season on pumpkins, spiders and black cats. Halloween is just around the corner and that’s why we bring you Halloween 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 in the mood :
Table Of Contents
- Visit the city's creepiest abandoned buildings.
- Party at the Estació de França
- Castaween at the Museu de la Xocolata
- Parc d'Atraccions Tibidabo
- Tots Sants in the cemeteries of Barcelona.
- ... or get out of the city and visit the most terrifying abandoned village.
- Halloween in Bosc de les Fades
- Paradox celebrates a "Castaween Adventure".
- Enjoy a Candlelight in halloween version.
- Have a marathon of horror movies shot in Barcelona.
- Touring Barcelona in search of its spookiest stories
- Hotel 666 and The Last Dance in Tibidabo
- Halloween Night at the Wax Museum of Barcelona
- Tour the monuments to death in the cemeteries.
- The immersive experience La Zona, in Poble Espanyol
- Go to the most unknown tunnel of terror of Barcelona
- Horror cinema at the Palau de la Música
- To end up rejecting the modern and embracing tradition by eating chestnuts...
- ... or panellets
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 go carefully 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.
Location: Various locations in Barcelona.
Party at the Estació de França
Halloween night calls for original plans and this is one of them. The historic Estació de França transforms on October 31 to host the HLWN Fest, a 7+ hour party with rumba, DJ, karaoke, tarot and costume contest.
💶Ticket: from 12 euros.
📍Location: Estació de França.
Castaween at the Museu de la Xocolata
The sweetest fusion between the Castanyada and Halloween comes to the Museu de la Xocolata. During the weekends of October 18, 19, 25, 26 and 31, and also on November 1 and 2, the museum offers three family workshops with a terrifyingly creative touch: Artistes de la Xocolata Castaween, Piruletes Castaween and Decoració de galetes Castaween. Each session combines play, learning and lots of imagination with cocoa and monsters.
Entrance: From 12 € (depending on the workshop).
📍Location: Museu de la Xocolata, Carrer Comerç, 36.
Parc d’Atraccions Tibidabo
Barcelona’s most emblematic park celebrates its spookiest season with shows, zombies and themed attractions. Until November 2, Tibidabo hosts L’últim ball, a zombie show at Plaça dels Somnis, plus the haunting violinist Murphy and new Halloween-inspired performances by the park’s mascots. The virtual reality space Beyond has also dressed up in fear with the immersive experience Traumatika.
💶 Admission: Included with general admission to the park.
📍Location: Parc d’Atraccions Tibidabo.
Tots Sants in the cemeteries of Barcelona.
Beyond the pumpkins, Tots Sants invites you to remember those who are no longer with us, and the cemeteries of Barcelona are preparing with a program full of culture and memory . From October 25 to November 2, the cemeteries will be open from 8 am to 6 pm, with transport reinforcements, flower sales points and special activities: a new exhibition space in the Collection of Hearses, the concert of Cor Clavé in the Cementiri de Poblenou and a Mexican altar in honor of Concepció Badia Millàs, created by MEXCAT in the Cementiri de Montjuïc.
💸 Admission: Free.
📍Location: Cementiris de Barcelona (Montjuïc, Poblenou, Les Corts, Sant Andreu and others).
… or get out of the city and visit the most terrifying 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 without work and forced them to leave this village in the Baix Camp, in Tarragona.
Ghost because from then on 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 to check it yourself, and nothing like Halloween to take advantage and make that visit.
Location: La Mussara (Tarragona) .
Halloween in 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 the festival of fear deserves. On the occasion of this holiday they always organize events and promotions to have a great time (and scary) in the most magical bar in Barcelona.
Location: Wax Museum of Barcelona. Passatge de la Banca, 7
Paradox celebrates a “Castaween Adventure”.
Paradox Museum is a place where nothing is what it seems. The concept of “paradox” becomes a reality room by room, interactive experience by interactive experience. This peculiar museum comes to show that everything depends on the prism from which you look and observe things. In addition, during the autumn season, it celebrates a “Castaween Adventure”, different activities especially suitable for children.
To begin with, until November 2, a game is activated that consists of finding five characters typical of these halloween dates inside the Paradox Museum. Whoever finds them all will receive a final surprise. To continue, from October 25 to November 2, the museum will organize a “trick or treat”: everyone who visits the experience will be able to take a prize from the bag at the entrance of the place. And to top it all off, on October 31, all those in costume will be able to access the museum with a 15% discount on their tickets.
Dates: until November 2.
📍 Location: Plaza d’Urquinaona 3
💸 Tickets: From 14€, children’s ticket; from 18€, adults + passport + pencil pack for 2,5€.
Enjoy a Candlelight in halloween version.
Candlelight‘ s candlelight concerts have this fall a thematic version, Halloween Classics, where during two sessions we will be able to enjoy a selection of spooky songs: from pop hits like Michael Jackson’s Thriller to the BSO of classic movies like The Exorcist, Psycho and The Rocky Horror Picture Show or classical music like the Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns. A perfect soundtrack to set the mood for this festive period.
📅 Dates: October 24. Sessions at 19:00h and 21:00h.
📍 Location: Paraninfo of the University of Barcelona. Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 585.
💸 Tickets: From 20€.
Have a marathon of horror movies shot in Barcelona.
Barcelona is a city-plato, that’s proven by all the productions that are filmed in the city. What you may not know is that, beyond Jaume Balagueró’s arch-famous REC, a good handful of horror films have been shot in Barcelona, which have turned its streets and buildings into chilling scenarios.
Here we tell you some of the best scary movies filmed in the city so you can set up a horror movie route for Halloween (or any time of the year).
Location: Warm up at home.
Touring Barcelona in search of its spookiest stories
Barcelona, like any self-respecting big city, has plenty of horror stories. From the vampire of the Raval to the scary stories that the city’s Metro keeps underground, the city is full of horror stories and black legends that deserve to be told and toured. Take note in this article and visit the places that were their scenarios.
Location: Several locations in Barcelona.
Hotel 666 and The Last Dance in Tibidabo
We have already told you about Tibidabo, and therefore, one of its most iconic attractions. Hotel 666 (formerly known as Krüeger) has been scaring the locals for many years and has been one of the most requested 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. Undoubtedly, a must visit this Halloween.
And for these dates the terror is doubled in Tibidabo: only until November 2 you can enjoy the zombie show The Last Dance, which will fill the Plaça dels Somnis of creepy living dead.
📅 Dates: From October 4 to November 2. Zombie show only Saturdays and Sundays.
Location: Parc d’atraccions Tibidabo. Pl. del Tibidabo, 3 and 4.
Tickets: General admission to the whole Tibidabo park + funicular to go up to 39€.
Halloween Night at the Wax Museum of Barcelona
If some figures are already scary all year round, imagine on Halloween. And is that the Wax Museum prepares a special evening, which will tell the pagan origin of this holiday and will bring together the most diabolical characters of the iconography of terror.
Dates: October 31 at 21:00h.
Location: Wax Museum of Barcelona. Passatge de la Banca, 7.
Tickets: 25€.
Tour the monuments to death in the cemeteries.
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 midst of cities that seek to live faster and faster.
Now that it is getting dark soon, few things are darker than walking through a cemetery and seeing the sculptures cut out against the light against a sky barely illuminated by the moon. The Montjuïc 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.
That’s why we bring you a tour of some of the most beautiful cemeteries in Barcelona, so you can practice necrotourism among some of the most impressive tombs of Barcelona.
The immersive experience La Zona, in Poble Espanyol
For three nights only, Poble Espanyol becomes a scary scenario with LA ZONA, its most disturbing immersive proposal: more than 4,000 dark m² that can only be crossed by those who dare to cross an old abandoned door, harassed by more than 30 terrifying characters whose only goal is to survive… alive. In addition to the special tour (requires separate entrance), at the end of the experience the brave ones will be able to enjoy the Poble’s usual enclosure: music, gastronomy, bar and games to relax after the adrenaline.
📅 Dates: October 17, 24 and 31
Location: Poble Espanyol. Av. de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 13, (Sants-Montjüc).
Tickets: From 22€.
Go to the most unknown tunnel of terror of Barcelona
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 11 years ago as a neighborhood initiative (everything is done by them) has been consolidating, and already welcomes more than a thousand visitors. This year will be the night of Halloween and admission is free (yes, with prior reservation, who does not run, flies!).
📅 Dates: October 31st
Location: Centre Cívic Trinitat Vella (Trinitat Vella)
Tickets: Free (reservation required)
Horror cinema at the Palau de la Música
Few settings are more suitable for a horror fest than a century-old former opera palace. 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 a Halloween concert, which, on this occasion will consist of a selection of soundtracks from mythical films such as Alien, The Silence of the Lambs or Psycho performed by the Vallès Symphony Orchestra. The music will be complemented by the narration of Salvador Vidal, the regular voice actor of stars such as George Clooney, Richard Gere or Ed Harris.
📅 Dates: October 4 and 31
Location: Palau de la Música Catalana. C/ Palau de la Música, 4-6.
Tickets: From 20€.
To end up rejecting the modern and embracing 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 Castanyada, 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?
To do so, you can consult the map with all the roasted chestnuts and sweet potatoes stops. There are them in all districts, half a hundred all over the city, so that you always have a chestnut stand at hand that allows you to say adéu a Halloween i benvinguda Castanyada.
… 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.