Gay Barcelona Travel Guide & Map 2019

Upcoming Events in Barcelona

| 20 – 24 September 2019

La Mercè 2019: annual festival of the city of Barcelona, especially known for its street parades with giant costumed figures (›gegants‹) with painted papier maché heads. Furthermore, many other events such as concerts, audiovisual shows, performances and dance workshops.

-› barcelona.cat/merce

| 9 – 12 April 2020

Matinée Easter Weekend 2020: long gay party weekend by the organizers of the Circuit Festival Barcelona.
Tickets: 20-40 €

-› matineeeaster.net

-› facebook.com/MatineeEasterWeekend

| 3 – 7 June 2020

Gay Pride Sitges 2020: annual gay pride in Sitges, a beach resort only 30 min from Barcelona und very popular with gay tourists.

-› Patroc Sitges Gay Guide & Map

| 26 – 27 June 2020

Barcelona Gay Pride 2020: the largest Pride event at the Mediterranean Sea.
Big parade on Saturday afternoon.

-› pridebarcelona.org

-› facebook.com/PrideBarcelona

| 6 – 16 August 2020

Circuit Festival Barcelona 2020: the largest gay clubbing summer event in Europe with about 20 parties and thousands of guys from all over the world.
Tickets: 30-60 €

-› circuitfestival.net

About Barcelona and its gay life

For gay travellers Barcelona has been one of the favourite destinations in Europe for the last twenty years. The city has this perfect combination of a warm Mediterranean climate, beaches within and close to the city, mountains in the hinterland and the culture, nightlife, sights and infrastructure of an European metropolis.

Among the things that make Barcelona unique are the many fine examples of Catalan Art Nouveau architecture (Modernisme Català). Barcelona is also a good place to enjoy the modern design that had bloomed after the death of dictator Franco.

As you can see on our gay maps, the center of Barcelona's gay scene is in the Eixample district (sometimes called the ›Gayxample‹ neighborhood, or ›Gaixample‹ in Catalan) with most of the gay bars, hotels, restaurants and shops in Barcelona.

Annual gay events and highlights in Barcelona are the bears meeting over Easter, Barcelona Gay Pride in June/July, the Circuit Festival party weeks in August and the international LGBTI film festival in October.

For a day at the beach you can go by car or train from Barcelona to the nearby town of Sitges which is quite popular with gay men, especially in August.

But there are also some beaches within Barcelona: Platja de Sant Sebastià at the end of the Barceloneta quarter with a popular, mixed and clothing-optional beach at its right side and a bit further north Platja de la Mar Bella with a clothing-optional section that is also quite popular with gays.