Today, for Halloween, Barcelona is full of initiatives that celebrate the American holiday with an impressive display. From the largest horror park in Europe to campsites completely characterized as a passage of terror.
But there is another Halloween in the city, a smaller and unknown one, one that a group of Barcelonians organize with their own hands and that, like all popular festivals, is of the neighbors and for the neighbors, is accessible and born in the margins, away from the spotlights of the city center. We are talking about the Túnel del Terror de Trinitat Vella, the most unknown fear passage of Barcelona.
The terror of the neighbors
We know the costumes of the parties of Gracia or Sants, but not everyone knew that in Trinitat Vella, that neighborhood that is usually off the radar of events in the city, more than 80 neighbors have been working for months to launch a tunnel of terror that has more than a thousand square meters and 14 different spaces.
The theme of this year’s passage is still secret, but neighbors anticipate that, “this year, the artificial intelligence has gotten out of hand, and the results can be catastrophic …”. Under the title “The show must go on” and has been organized, as every year, by the neighbors of the neighborhood.
The tunnel has been built by the neighbors of Trinitat Vella, with the support of the merchants of the neighborhood, in an initiative that is 12 years old and has been growing, from humble beginnings to a show that in its last edition in 2019, before the pandemic, attracted 1400 visitors.
Where is it, how much does it cost…?
The passage works only for one day, October 25, so, to access it you have to hurry and approach the civic center at 18h, when they will begin to distribute tickets for the show, which starts at 19h, and is extended, as far as possible, until everyone has been able to access.
It is held at the Civic Center of the neighborhood, and the entrance is on carrer Mare de Déu de Lorda, 25.
Admission is free, but a voluntary contribution of non-perishable food that will go to entities of Trinitat Vella and Nova is requested. In short, a tunnel of unknown terror, a round initiative and a neighborhood movement that shows that the good secrets of Barcelona are often cooked far from its center.