The best plans to enjoy November in Barcelona

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November is the autumn month par excellence in Barcelona, a perfect month to enjoy all kinds of plans, since it is neither sweltering hot nor the cold that makes us want to stay at home. In conclusion, whether indoors or outdoors we feel like doing a thousand things. Here are a few leisure and cultural plans to enjoy the month to the fullest in the city.

IKONO

IKONO is an immersive space where art by various emerging artists is shown but, unlike traditional museums, here we are not forbidden to touch, in fact, we are invited! We will also be part of the artistic composition in an installation and we can even create an ephemeral work. Of course, all photos and videos for our social networks are also welcome.

Location: Arenas Shopping Center. Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 385 (Floor 3)
Dates: open every day
Tickets: from 15,90€ Tickets: from 15,90€.

Mozart and Vienna: a magical journey through music

In a journey through time that will automatically transport us to the Vienna of Classicism, Mozart will come to life in Barcelona thanks to virtual reality technology. From November 10, the Reial Cercle Artístic will host the immersive experience Mozart and Vienna: a magical journey through music, which will give us the opportunity to immerse ourselves completely in the life and work of the brilliant Austrian composer.

This virtual reality experience takes over from Petra: the glory of the Nabataeans, which after months of success bids farewell to Barcelona.

Location: Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona. C/ dels Arcs, 7
Dates: from November 10
Tickets: from 9€.

Concerts of the Cruïlla Tardor cycle at El Molino

Cruïlla Tardor is the prelude to Cruïlla, the great summer festival that brings to Barcelona great national and international artists. . Its autumn edition takes place indoors, and this year it gains a new space with a lot of tradition: El Molino. The mythical venue in Paral-lel, reopened just over a year ago, is an ideal setting for some of the concerts of this cycle . These are the renowned artists who will be there this November:

• Stacey Kent (November 16)
• Reuben James (November 20)
• Butler, Black & Grant (November 29)
• Amaia Miranda (November 30)

In addition, artists such as Micah P. Hinson (November 28) also perform this month at El Molino in its regular program. In this article we tell you about the best concerts at the venue for this fall.

Location: El Molino. c/ Vila i Vilà, 99.
Tickets: from 15€.

Leonardo Versus Michelangelo: the immersive challenge

Two artists and an unprecedented immersive duel: this is how Leonardo Versus Michelangelo begins, a spectacular immersive exhibition that shows us the work of both artists and makes us continuously choose our favorite. You may have a clear winner at the beginning, but as you discover their trajectory (between virtual reality, immersive films, interactive spaces and metaverse), you’ll be able to see how the two artists have been working together for years.

Location: IDEAL Barcelona. C/ del Doctor Trueta, 196-198
Dates: Open every day except Tuesdays
Tickets: from €9,5

LUMINISCENCE

Santa Maria del Pi surrenders to music and color in this immersive show that tells the story of the basilica. It does so through voice-over, video mapping, high quality classical music and an angelic choir performing iconic pieces. A different way to enjoy one of the jewels of Catalan Gothic.

Location: Santa Maria del Pi. Plaça del Pi, 7
Dates: Open every day except Tuesdays
Tickets: from 18€.

Paradox Museum

Paradox Museum is one of the most amazing spaces in the city. Ideal for lovers of puzzles and optical illusions, this museum is a place where the laws of physics don’t seem to make much sense. Each room makes you rethink your perception of the world, and you will leave with almost more questions than answers.

Location: Pl. Urquinaona, 3
Dates: all month
Tickets: from 16€ Tickets: from 16€.

SENSAS

For those looking for a different activity to enjoy in a group, SENSAS offers a playful experience based on sensory challenges. The proposal, which incorporates dynamics similar to those of an escape room -with challenges focused on the five senses-, allows participants to accumulate points while contributing to a charitable cause. It is an ideal opportunity to share laughs and surprises, testing the agility and reactions of the team members.

Location: C/ d’Entença, 91-93, Bajos 2
Dates: Open every day
Tickets: from 27,70€ per person

Candlelight tributes

This November, Candlelight‘s candlelight concerts are filled with the music of great artists of yesterday and today, always in unique venues in Barcelona. From Coldplay to Queen, through Abba or Metallica. Of course, there is no shortage of those dedicated to classical composers, such as Mozart, or those that pay tribute to mythical soundtracks such as those of The Lord of the Ringsor Game of Thrones.

Location: various locations in Barcelona
Dates: various dates
Tickets: from 17€.

All Those Food Market

This gastronomic festival returns in its autumn edition to celebrate artisan talent and local products, bringing together more than 150 exhibitors including chefs, artisans and entrepreneurs. For two days we can enjoy a wide range of street food with international and local cuisines, as well as a market with quality and sustainable products (from cheeses and spices to signature pastries). The event is completed with workshops, guided tastings, DJs and family activities,

Location: Moll de la Fusta
Dates: November 1st and 2nd
Tickets: 5€.

Terror Molins

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The Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival, which celebrates its 44th edition, presents a program that includes feature and short films in competition, retrospectives, documentaries and one of the oldest horror film marathons in the world. In this edition, the leitmotiv is “J-Horror, beyond astonishment”, paying tribute to Japanese horror cinema with special screenings and activities.

Location: Teatre La Peni. Molins de Rei. Plaça Mercè Rodoreda, 1
Dates: From November 7 to 16
Tickets: from 1,5€.

L’Alternativa

The Barcelona Independent Film Festival, L’Alternativa, will celebrate its 32nd edition at venues such as the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), the Filmoteca de Catalunya and the Zumzeig and Maldà cinemas. This event presents a program focused on the exhibition of independent cinema, with an international and national competition of feature and short films covering genres such as fiction, non-fiction, essay, experimental cinema and animation. Some of the filmmakers who will present their works are Hafsia Herzi, Jem Cohen or José Luis Guerin, and there will be cycles dedicated to committed filmmakers such as Lizzie Borden, René Vautier and Theo Anthony.

In addition, the festival is committed to hybridity and a selection of films from the 32nd edition will be available on Filmin for 15 days in January 2026.

Location: Various locations
Dates: November 13 to 23
Tickets: coming soon

Drap-Art, International Festival of Sustainable Art

The Drap-Art festival returns to Barcelona to celebrate a month dedicated to art and sustainability, with activities that will take place in galleries and spaces in the Gothic Quarter. This free event promotes art created from recycled or reused materials, transforming everyday objects into works with a message of environmental commitment. The festival will include exhibitions by selected artists, cultural actions and visual interactions, focusing on the value of upcycling and creativity as tools for ecological awareness.

Location:
Dates: November 20 to December 21
Tickets: Free!

Film Festival

Unlimited cinema at 3,50€ per session. This is the proposal of the Fiesta del Cine, which returns one more edition for us to enjoy all those films on the billboard that we have pending. Up to 40 theaters in Catalonia join the proposal, which will allow us to enjoy recent unmissable premieres such as One Battle After Another, Maspalomas, The Ugly Stepsister, Good Boy, The Life of Chuck, Frankestein or so many other films that deserve to be seen on the big screen.

Location: 40 cinemas in Barcelona and surroundings
Dates: from November 3 to 6
Tickets: 3,5€ per session

Curtcircuit

Curtcircuit is a cycle of concerts that, among other cities, proposes some events in Barcelona. Sol Lagarto, Claraguilar, Sergi Carbonell (ex-Txarango) or Yawners are some of the proposals for this November. All concerts are held in small and medium-sized venues, away from the big halls of the capital, so that we can enjoy the live performances up close.

📍 Location: several venues
Date: until November 28
💸 Admission: from 10€.

World Press Photo 2025

The international photojournalism exhibition will showcase the best images of its contest, offering a vision of the most important events of the past year through documentary photography. This is a special edition, as it is the 70th anniversary of this prestigious award.

Among this year’s overall winners was Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf, who won the Photo of the Year award for her moving image of Mahmoud Ajjour, a nine-year-old boy in Gaza who lost both arms after an Israeli attack. The award for Photographic Reportage of the Year went to Musuk Nolte for his series on the devastating drought in the Peruvian Amazon, aggravated by climate change. The Spanish presence also stands out, with awards for Samuel Nacar and Luis Tato.

Location: CCCB. C/ Montalegre, 5
Dates: from November 7 to December 14
Tickets: from 7€.

A hot chocolate in the best chocolate shops in Barcelona

I do not know if we could dare to call Barcelona the capital of chocolate, but we can boast of having many of the best chocolate shops in the country. Barcelona is a real paradise for chocolate lovers with places like Chöck, Cacao Sampaka or Granka Dulcinea, where you can taste the authentic hot chocolate with churros, in the purest Barcelona style. And if you want to try new things, try the hot pistachio a la taza.

👉 Discover here the best chocolate shops in the city.

Escena

Escena is a performing arts cycle that wants to bring culture to all audiences. That’s why all the shows are free (you just have to book your ticket) and are held in different civic centers of Barcelona, many of them far from the center. A perfect occasion to enjoy the latest trends in music, circus, dance and theater, a timeless billboard for all tastes and ages and with recognized names such as Maria Rodés, Alba Careta and Henrio or Èlia Bastida TRio, among many other local creators.

Location: several CC of Barcelona
Dates: all November and until December 20
Tickets: Free! (prior reservation)

Poble Nou Open Night

For one night only and for 6 hours, the creative community of Poblenou Urban District will show all their creations for the enjoyment of the neighbors of the neighborhood and anyone who wants to stop by. Public and private venues in the city will offer showrooms, international food tastings, DJ sessions, exhibitions and everything you can think of.

Location: Various locations in the Poblenou neighborhood
Dates: November 28th

Barcelona International Jazz Festival

One of the most traditional festivals of our city and, although it is said “jazz”, one of the most eclectic. For this year’s edition, there is no lack of great local talent, represented by great figures such as La Vella Dixieland with Nanina, Andrea Motis & Barcelona Gospel Messengers or Lina and Marco Mezquida. And flamenco has again a great weight, with legends such as José Mercé or Las Migas.

📍 Location: various venues
Dates: all month and until March 1
Admission: various prices

42nd Barcelona Festival of Fantastic Genres

The fantastic genre in its broadest sense (horror, fantasy, science fiction…) has a great event in Barcelona, now in its 5th edition. On this occasion, the event pays tribute to great local events, such as the 40th anniversary of the legendary bookstore Gigamesh, and features prominent speakers such as the writers V.E. Schwab (one of the most widely read genre writers of today) or Joan-Lluís Lluís (author of the successful Jo soc aquell que va matar Franco). In addition, there will be a cosplay contest and other activities that avid readers will love.

Location: Fabra i Coats. c/ de Sant Adrià, 20 (and parallel activities in neighborhood CC)
Dates: November 5 to 9
Tickets: free!

BDC Screen

This cycle, which after a summer season premieres its winter season, will count until March 2026 with more than 1” screenings in 23 civic centers of Barcelona. A decentralized proposal to enjoy films from all periods and that, on this occasion, has the theme “the strength of the community”. Thus, it will be possible to see from recent hits such as El 47 or La estrella azul to more auteur films or a whole cycle dedicated to children’s cinema.

Location: several CC of Barcelona
Dates: all month and until March 29, 2025
Tickets: Free!

Serializados Fest

The festival for series lovers is back. In this year’s edition, different national (for example, Los 39 or Jakarta) and international (such as The Danish Woman or A Better Man) series will compete for the award of the event and their creators or artistic directors will attend so that the audience can learn more about their creations. A highlight will be the presence of an audiovisual great, the screenwriter and director Alan Ball, who will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the end of A Two Meters Under Ground and will give a talk about his career.

Location: Various spaces
Dates: from November 3 to 12 (and from November 10 to 23 on the streaming platform Filmin)
Tickets: from 30 ¤ the pack of 6 events

Festival del Joc – Dau

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The essential event for board game lovers, a complete fair dedicated to this hobby. The highlight will be the games (both day and night and of all genres and styles), although there will be a professional congress of the sector and even the option to present research proposals around the world of gaming.

Location: Fabra i Coats. c/ de Sant Adrià, 20 (and parallel activities in neighborhood CC)
Dates: from 13 to 16 November, and congress on 17 and 18
Tickets: free activities upon registration

Som Natura

This immersive exhibition, internationally recognized, invites you to “enter a magazine” of the iconic life-size National Geographic. Through stunning images, immersive projections and cutting-edge technology, the tour delves into three ecosystems – the forest, the ocean and a natural refuge – to celebrate the beauty of biodiversity and, at the same time, raise awareness of its fragility.

Location: CaixaForum. Av. de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8
Dates: all month and until April 6, 2026
Tickets: 6€, free for CaixaBank clients.

The Beerxample beer tour

Throughout Barcelona you can drink good beer, but it turns out that the Eixample concentrates a number of places where you can enjoy the best craft malts. This tour is popularly known as Beerxample and here we tell you which are the essential stops.

Eating the best callos in the world

It turns out that you don’t have to go far to eat the best tripe in the world. Specifically, to l’Hospitalet, because a homemade bar in this town has won the World Cup of tripe at the congress of haute cuisine San Sebastian Gastronomika. Take the subway to get there in a jiffy and enjoy this pleasure of the gods.

Location: L’Artesana Santa Eulàlia. C de l’Aprestadora, 9 (L’Hospitalet). More info here

Asian Film Fest

Casa Asia organizes one more year this festival entirely dedicated to the cinematographies of all Asia: South Korea, India, Thailand, China, Japan, Iran? A unique opportunity to see recent films that probably will not be shown in commercial cinemas.

Dates: From October 29th to November 9th
Location: Cinemes Girona
Tickets: 8€ per ticket

KM0 Science

This series of talks, given by experts in the field, aims to bring science to all audiences, with topics such as urban green spaces or nanotechnology. It is a decentralized event that takes place in several neighborhood facilities.

Dates: Every Wednesday in November and December 10
Location: Several civic centers of the city
Tickets: free!

MIRA Festival

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This event, which is not just an electronic music festival, is back. It is a total sensory experience where the boundaries between visual art, immersive technology and avant-garde sound dissolve. Fira de Montjuïc is transformed for a few days into a huge laboratory of large-scale projections, interactive installations and audiovisual concerts.

Dates: November 7 and 8
Location: Fira de Montjuïc
Tickets: from 50€.

Last celebrations of the 10th anniversary of Centre d’Art Amatller

The modernist building of Casa Amatller has been open to the public for 10 years for events and exhibitions, so this 2025 they have turned to celebrate it with different activities. In November we can still visit the family pantheon of the Amatller family as well as enjoy a conference about one of its most illustrious members.

Location: various locations
Dates: various dates of the month
Tickets: from 10€.

Loop

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Loop is the city’s reference event for video art, that way of making cinema that is sometimes forgotten in the face of so much fiction and documentary. Whether you love the format or want to get into it, Loop is your chance, as it will feature a festival of screenings, a professional fair and a symposium to discuss its present and future.

Location: CCCB. C/ Montalegre, 5
Dates: November 11th to 20th
Tickets: free!

A visit to Nou Sentit Urbà’s street artworks

Art is sometimes in the street. This is demonstrated by the Nou Sentit Urbà initiative, which has filled Nou Barris with giant-sized works in some of its buildings and which are well worth a route.

👉 Discover here all the works of this initiative and where to see them.

Switching on the Christmas lights

Christmas this year comes earlier and earlier in Barcelona: the lights switch-on will be on Saturday, November 22 at 6:30 pm, days earlier than usual (which is always usually the last weekend of November). The lighting will feature signature designs in emblematic streets and the hours of operation will be maintained, from 5:30 pm to 1:00 am on weekdays and until 2:00 am on weekends and holiday eves.

Location: Passeig de Gràcia
Dates: November 22nd

The Lights of Sant Pau

If the official lighting of lights is not enough for you, there is still more. Once again this year Llums de Sant Pau is back, filling the modernist hospital with beautiful illumination. Visitors will be able to walk through a completely renovated lighting circuit with 18 interactive installations. Under the slogan “We turn on the light of your Christmas”, the show offers an immersive experience for all ages, including the Royal Camp of King Balthazar.

Location: Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau. c/ Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 167
Dates: from November 20 to January 11, 2026
Tickets: from 10,90€

The most awaited concerts in November

November in Barcelona brings a wave of live music with unmissable concerts. Elefantes celebrate 25 years of their mythical Azul at Paral-lel 62, the last Eurovision winner, Nemo, comes to the city; and we will be able to see artists as varied as Jamiroquai, BALTHVS or Tommy Cash with his Espresso Machiatto.

Location: the most iconic venues in Barcelona

Dates: all month

Tickets: various prices