Carnival in Barcelona

From February 8 to 14

For a week Barcelona will be filled with parades, masked balls, popular meals and sardine burials. The party will begin at 18:00h in the Plaza Sant Jaume with the distribution of masks. At 18.30h the retinue of King Carnival will arrive and then, in the middle of the festive apotheosis, the King Carnival will make its stellar appearance to proclaim, from the balcony of the Town Hall, its temporary reign of a week of wildness Gratuito / Gratuïta / Free

Carnival in Barcelona

Fiestas de Santa Eulàlia

From 9 to 12 February

The Fiestas de Santa Eulàlia are organized in honor of Santa Eulalia, patron of Barcelona. There are parades through the streets and squares of Ciutat Vella with giants and big heads, eagles, lions, dance groups, devils, dragons and other characters Gratuito / Gratuïta / Free

Fiestas de Santa Eulàlia

Llum BCN

From 16 to 18 February

The LLUM BCN festival (light BCN) is a circuit of light installations uniting tradition, art and technology. Shows projected on facades of buildings, patios transformed with light creating spaces and new sensations and art installations in places with light as the protagonist Gratuito / Gratuïta / Free

Llum BCN

A walk on the Montjuïc mountain – Views of Barcelona at dawn

A proposal of itinerary to know Montjuïc going up to the top in public transport and going down on foot, visiting the key places.

A walk on the Montjuïc mountain – Views of Barcelona at dawn


It is counted behind the bone - Space of pain

Everyday

One of the first works of "la Caixa" Collection of Contemporary Art that was acquired in 1985 and permanently installed in CaixaForum Barcelona in 2002. "It is counted behind the bone - Space of pain" (hinter dem Knochen wird gezählt - Schmerzraum ) is one of the latest productions of Joseph Beuys, artist of the second half of the twentieth century essential for the development of current art Gratuito / Gratuïta / Free

It is counted behind the bone - Space of pain

Moby Dick

Until March 18

This work focuses on the figure of the ambitious Captain Ahab and his fight against the whale. The adaptation invites the viewer to take a trip to the depths of the madness of a man capable of everything to achieve his goal. A total and daring play ... with whale included.

Moby Dick

Eufònic Urbà

From February 2 to 18

Eufònic Urbà in Arts Santa Mónica offers a selection of some of the best audiovisual performances and experimental proposals of the original edition of Eufònic, the festival of sound and visual arts that takes place at the end of summer in Terres de l'Ebre. Highlight the "Frack" installations of the French Sandra and Gaspard Bebié-Valérian, who explore the sonorities of the failed Castor project, and "In Between" by the Italian artist Fabio Perletta, who work with the potential of the rice sound Gratuito / Gratuïta / Free

Eufònic Urbà

Emergència!

February 10

This festival is a sample of emerging and independent music scenebands and it is an opportunity to meet groups that we may see in major festivals in the near future. The 2018 edition in CCCB is a tribute to the festival's ten-year history and you can listen to bands that have performed in past Emergència! editions.

Emergència!

Chinese New Year in Barcelona

February 17

If you want to attend the celebrations of the Chinese New Year you have two options: buy an Air China flight to live it in Beijing or going to the Arc de Triomf area on Saturday, February 17 Gratuito / Gratuïta / Free

Chinese New Year in Barcelona


 

On February 11, during the carnival, if you want to "disguise" yourself as a half marathon runner (and run it), sign up here as soon as possible.