One of the great things about living in Barcelona is that there’s always something happening. One of the confusing things about living in Barcelona is that there’s always something happening. You step out to grab bread and walk into a parade. You try to meet a friend and get blocked by a troop of devils with firecrackers. It’s charming. It’s chaotic. It’s frequently loud.
So we made a page for it.
The new Barcelona Events Calendar is our attempt to make sense of the city’s non-stop cultural agenda—from the big-ticket items like Festes de Grà cia and Primavera Sound, to smaller, weirder gems like the Sant Medir candy-throwing cavalcade or the inexplicably hypnotic human tower rehearsals.
It’s not exhaustive (neither are we), but we’ll be adding to it regularly. And know that we didn’t just copy this all from Wikipedia while nursing a cortado. No, we worked hard on it and got most of it from ChatGPT while nursing a vermut! Think of it as a rolling archive of what makes Barcelona tick: the saints, the drummers, the neighborhood rivalries, the castellers who you watch no matter how many times you come across them.
We made this for anyone who’s ever asked, “Wait, why are there fireworks again?”—and also for our future selves, who will inevitably forget.
Check it out, and if you know an event we’ve missed (especially one involving human towers or some sort of tasting something), let us know. We’re easily tempted.
