With autumn just started, pumpkins, spiders and black cats are in season. Halloween is just around the corner and that’s why we’re bringing you plans for 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.
- See Rocafort Station, the horror movie of the Barcelona subway.
- Or do a marathon of horror movies shot in Barcelona.
- Halloween amidst magic and mysteries at Paradox Museum (until November 3)
- Halloween at Bosc de les Fades
- The Day of the Dead comes to Barcelona with 'Coco' and its altar of the dead in 'Pixar World'.
- A terrifying forest: 'La Última Acampada' (from October 25 to November 9).
- ... or get out of the city and visit the most terrifying abandoned village.
- Touring Barcelona in search of its darkest stories...
- An immersive horror experience in Hotel Dracula
- Hotel Krüeguer in Tibidabo
- Enjoy a Candlelight in halloween version.
- Bring out your detective skills in Murder Mystery: Murder in the House of Silk.
- Halloween at the Wax Museum of Barcelona
- Touring the monuments to the death of the cemeteries
- The village of terror of Poble Espanyol
- Go to the most unknown tunnel of terror in Barcelona
- To end up rejecting the modern and embracing tradition by eating chestnuts...
- ... or panellets
- Horror concerts at the Monumental Club
- Change halloween and castanyada for a Mexican Day of the Dead Catrinas parade.
- Dancing at the big masked ball of La Mascarada.
- Modernist Halloween at the Palau de la Música
- Visit the terrifying Alien museum hiding in a Barcelona garage.
- Bonus track: terrifying getaway to WAH Madrid
- The camping of terror
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.
Various locations in Barcelona.
Free of charge! But be careful.
See Rocafort Station, the horror movie of the Barcelona subway.
That’s right, there is a Barcelona subway station on which there is 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).
Or do 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 REC or Rocafort Station, a good handful of horror movies have been shot in Barcelona, which have turned its streets and buildings into chilling scenarios.
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).
Halloween amidst magic and mysteries at Paradox Museum (until November 3)
Paradox Museum is a place where mystery, fantasy and continuous surprises abound. Its more than 70 paradoxes are ideal for any time of the year, but on these special dates even more so: the museum has dressed up for Halloween so you can celebrate the holiday with your family, enjoying its usual magic but with an even spookier element.
Until November 3
📍 Pl. Urquinaona, 3.
💸 General admission: 18€ / Children and reduced admission: 14€.
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 the festival of fear deserves. 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.
Wax Museum of Barcelona. Passatge de la Banca, 7 (Drassanes)
The Day of the Dead comes to Barcelona with ‘Coco’ and its altar of the dead in ‘Pixar World’.
This celebration is perfect to immerse yourself in the rich Mexican culture and pay homage to one of its most important traditions: the Day of the Dead. At Mundo Pixar you will find an altar of the dead like the one featured in Coco, full of colors, marigold flowers and candles, elements that symbolize the love and respect for Mama Coco’s loved ones who are no longer here.
Perfect to experience on Halloween, the Coco set at Pixar World invites you to explore this touching tradition in an immersive and visually spectacular environment, which also features 12 other sets from Pixar’s most iconic films.
Admission: from €17.60.
📍 Location: Outdoor Parking – Westfield La Maquinista. C/ de Potosí, 2, (Sant Andreu)
A terrifying forest: ‘La Última Acampada’ (from October 25 to November 9).
Dare to experience the most terrifying Halloween with The Last Campout’.. More than 1,000 square meters of pure terror await you in the forest of Cerdanyola, just 15′ from Barcelona. It’s not just a tunnel of terror… it’s much, much more. Immerse yourself in this immersive experience where you will have to solve riddles, escape from creepy characters and discover the dark secrets of the forest if you want to come out unscathed. Perfect to live the most intense Halloween from October 25 to November 9… if you dare.
(Carrer Riu Sec, s/n, 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona) Diverbosc
… 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 to do is to go and see for yourself, and nothing like Halloween to take advantage and make that visit.
La Mussara (Tarragona)
Free of charge!
Touring Barcelona in search of its darkest stories…
Barcelona, like any self-respecting city, has a lot of horror stories. From the vampire 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 toured.
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)
An immersive horror experience in Hotel Dracula
This immersive experience of terror combines virtual reality and entertainment, becoming one of the star plans for this Halloween. In this exciting and fun adventure, lovers of fear will become guests of the most famous Count in an unforgettable evening. But beware! To get to the banquet, you will have to be brave, walk through the corridors of a hotel, explore iconic movie sets and overcome other obstacles. Get ready to enjoy unforgettable scares, from legendary monsters to mysterious noises that will surprise you. Don’t miss this innovative activity and experience an ideal plan with friends or family, for ages 10 and up!
Immersive Center. Westfiled La Maquinista Shopping Center (Floor o). C/Potosí, 2
Hotel Krüeguer 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 is one of the most popular 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 also celebrates for Halloween, the Night of the Souls, a puppet show that will scare the youngest members of the family.
Tibidabo Amusement Park. Pl. del Tibidabo, 3 and 4.
General admission to the whole Tibidabo park + funicular to go up to 35 €.
Enjoy a Candlelight in halloween version.
Candlelight ‘s candlelight concerts have this fall with a thematic version, Halloween Classics, where during two days we will be able to enjoy a selection of spooky songs: from pop hits like Michael Jackson’s Thriller to the BSO of film classics like The Exorcist, Psycho and The Rocky Horror Picture Show or classical music such as Camille Saint-Saëns. A perfect soundtrack to set the mood for this festive period.
📅 October 25th and 26th
📍 Reial Cercle Artistic. c/ dels Arcs, 5
💸 F rom 28€.
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 90-minute immersive game 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?
The Silk House. 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 Wax Museum we would notice the difference. The museum’s square, hidden behind La Rambla, is a creepy place, and entering it and suddenly seeing some of the figures looking down on us from above is a guarantee of a good scare.
Wax Museum of Barcelona. Passatge de la Banca, 7.
Touring the monuments to the death of 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 middle 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 necro-tourism among some of the most impressive tombs in Barcelona.
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 will host 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.
After last year’s success, the adult version of the horror tunnel returns this year. Creepy Extreme, which will turn Poble Espanyol into a circus of terror on October 25, 1 and 2 November from 8:30 pm to midnight.
Visitors will be guided by more than 30 actors through the spaces of the enclosure, specifically 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 the most unknown tunnel of terror in 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 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.
They come to a neighborhood that is out of the usual radars 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)
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 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?
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.
Horror 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.
📍Monumental Square. Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 749 [Metro: Monumental].
💸Tickets from €8 for Monumental Kids and from €11 for Monumental Club.
📅2 November
Change halloween and castanyada for a Mexican Day of the Dead Catrinas parade.
The Catrina, an elegant skeleton decorated with flowers, has become a symbol of the Day of the Dead in Mexico and has gained popularity in celebrations such as Halloween and Carnival. This year, for the third consecutive year, Barcelona will host a Catrina parade on La Rambla, organized by Mexcat and Amics de la Rambla, following the success of its debut in 2022.
The event will take place on November 4 starting at 12 noon, where a group of Catrinas will walk along the Rambla to the Columbus monument, making photo stops at emblematic locations. The organization invites everyone to participate, either individually or in groups.
📍Las Ramblas
💸Free of charge
📅2 November – 12h.
Dancing at the big masked ball of La Mascarada.
On October 31, on the night of Halloween (or Tots Sants), El Poble Espanyol celebrates the third edition of La Mascarada, a party at the Montjuïc site from 11pm to 6am where all attendees are invited to wear masks to immerse themselves in an atmosphere where prejudices disappear,
Modernist Halloween at the Palau de la Música
Few settings are more suitable for a horror party than a former opera palace more than a century old. 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 ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ by Robert Wiene 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 hiding in a Barcelona garage.
From the outside, no one would say so. But in an anonymous local of 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 set up this museum when all the pieces he collected no longer fit in his house. While he was working as a chauffeur, he bought a place to house a museum, already thinking of making it a visitable place.
Juan de Garay, 31 first floor
💸20€
Bonus track: terrifying getaway to 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 a lot 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 direct.
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 wee hours of the morning at its after party. The perfect getaway if you take a long weekend this Halloween.
IFEMA (Avenida Partenón, 5)
From October 25 to November 1.
The camping of terror
First it was camping, then glamping, and now it seems that “terrocamping” has emerged….. “terrocamping”? Although we don’t know what to call it, we are sure that the experience offered by the Taiga campsite for Halloween, transforming itself into a real horror-themed campsite, will convince many. During the weekend of October 31 to November 3, this campsite in the Ebro Delta will become a place full of scary activities to celebrate Halloween.
There will be workshops to create and customize decorations and pumpkins, which will then compete in contests with the other campers. These contests, usually held on Saturday, November 2, will award the “best pumpkin”, the “best accommodation decoration” and the “best costume”.
Camping Taiga Delta de l’Ebre
💸 Various prices
📅 F rom October 31 to November 3,