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After two months of regattas, the 37th America’s Cup reaches its conclusion. The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match pits the winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Selection Series against the defending holders of the America’s Cup, the Emirates Team New Zealand. The winner will be the team that takes seven of the thirteen regattas.
In parallel, the Puig Women’s America’s Cup will be held from 5th. to 13th. of October.
WHERE: Different locations (Platja Barceloneta)
WHEN: Aug. 29th to Oct. 5th
TIME: TBC
Swab is Barcelona’s contemporary art fair. It is an independent project created 15 years ago as an experimental platform for emerging artists. Priority is given to the quality of the artistic programme and the project’s proximity to the public. Around eighty art galleries from all over the world take part in the event, which was founded by the architect and collector Joaquín Díez-Cascón.
WHERE: Check program for Art galleries and museums taking part of the event
WHEN: October 3rd. -6th. 2024
TIME: Check detailed event agenda
The Barcelona International Boat Show is the city’s annual sports and recreational sailing event. This year’s edition, its 61st, will focus on the 2024 America’s Sailing Cup. The show will bring an extensive exhibition of vessels to Port Vell, including sailing boats, yachts and catamarans. In addition, this year the Moll de la Fusta will host the Innovation Dock, where fifteen start-ups will showcase their most transformative projects in the field of digitalisation and environmentally friendly sailing, including electric, hybrid and hydrogen vessels.
WHERE: Port Vell Barcelona (old wharf)
WHEN: 10-13 October 2024
TIME: 10:00 hrs.-19:00 hrs.
Barcelona is a market city, and Mercat de Mercats is the markets’ grand celebration. This gastronomic fair focuses on high-quality, local and sustainable food and takes place in Plaça de les Glòries, where you can taste tapas prepared by some of the best local chefs, buy fresh food from the markets’ suppliers and even cook it yourself right there in the barbecue area. There will also be chats, talks and show cooking by professional cooks.
WHERE: Plaça de les Glòries
WHEN: 10-13 October 2024
TIME: 11:00 hrs.-21:00 hrs.
48h Open House is one of Barcelona’s main architecture events. A full weekend of free guided tours in which over 250 buildings of all types, shapes and sizes in the city of Barcelona and its surrounding areas will throw open their doors to visitors. The festival is a perfect opportunity to enjoy experiences related to Barcelona’s heritage, from Roman ruins to today’s city, including buildings that are examples of Catalan Gothic, Neoclassicism, Catalan Modernisme and the Modern movement.
WHERE: 250 buildings in Barcelona and its surroundings
WHEN: 26 & 27 October 2024
TIME: Check schedule for each building
The leading jockeys on the international equestrian scene will come together for the 111th International Jumping Competition and the Longines Nations Cup final, the most important equestrian competition of the year. Over the course of four days, the Barcelona Royal Polo Club will host a total of ten competitions in a world-class show.
WHERE: Royal Polo Club Barcelona
WHEN: 3rd.-6th. October 2024
TIME: Check schedule for daily competition
This international event on smart and sustainable urban mobility is held every year in Barcelona in parallel to the Smart City Expo World Congress. The congress explores mobility projects and initiatives for the future, with national and international experts and businesses, organizations and research centers looking to strengthen their capacities, increase collaboration and share solutions to speed up the transition to sustainable mobility.
WHERE: Fira Gran Via
WHEN: November 5th-7th. 2024
TIME: 09:00 HRS-20:00 HRS
Every year, Barcelona sees in the Christmas season by switching on the Christmas lights throughout the city. It is something unique to behold, full of imagination and excitement, and specially designed to kick-start the most magical time of the year. All the Christmas lights in the city are officially switched on right after the end of the show, lighting hundreds of streets and squares and filling them with a festive atmosphere and the Christmas spirit. If you come to Barcelona during the holiday season, let yourself be dazzled by the decorations in the city’s most iconic places. You will be pleasantly surprised!
WHERE: Downtown Barcelona
WHEN: November . 22nd. 2024
TIME: TBC
This November, Barcelona, a UNESCO City of Literature, will be the capital of non-realistic literature. Festival 42 provides a meeting point for creators, readers, publishers and disseminators of fantasy genres, an unmissable event that boosts connections ranging from mythology to science fiction and from YA fantasy to the most unsettling horror, featuring domestic and international authors and the latest releases.
WHERE: Several locations ( 70 different events)
WHEN: November 6th –10th. 2024
TIME: check detailed agenda for events
Barcelona is confirming its leadership as a destination for congresses and business by hosting IBTM World, the jewel in the crown in this sector. This is the most important global fair for tourism linked to meetings, incentives, conferences, events and the business travel industry (MICE). The last edition brought together around 2650 hosted buyers (international companies in charge of organizing events) and 2,500 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, along with 12,000 professionals from the sector.
WHERE: Fira Gran Via
WHEN: November 19th,-21st. 2024
TIME:08:45 hrs- 18:00 hrs.
Focusing on this fascination with Spanish culture, Verdi wrote Ernani (1844), Il trovatore (1853), Don Carlo (1867) and La forza del destino (1862). The action begins with the dream of two lovers, Don Alvaro and Leonora, preparing to elope, but the two lovers are caught by the young woman’s father. Misfortune follows them when Don Alvaro, while throwing his pistols on the ground, unintentionally fires one and kills the father: fortune is capricious and laughs at the fate of men. Only Verdi’s talent could transform a convoluted plot, filled with clichés from the Spanish Romantic school, into an opera that is a quintessential example of the 19th century Italian repertoire and a true musical miracle.
WHERE: Liceu Opera House
WHEN: November 9th-19TH. 2024
TIME: Check daily schedule
Veteran Canadian rocker Bryan Adams returns to Barcelona, two years after introducing his last studio album to his massive local fan base. His impressive career spanning four decades ensures a set list full of classic epic rock tunes from the 80’s like ‘Summer of ’69’ and his trade mark power ballads like ‘ Have you ever really loved a woman’, ‘Please forgive me’ y ‘(Everything I do) I do it for you’.
WHERE: Palau Sant Jordi
WHEN: November 12TH. 2024
TIME: 21:00 hrs.
Insider’s tip Barcelona
Willing to mingle with the locals? One of the best tips you can receive to plan your restaurants and night-life in Barcelona is to be aware that the standard schedule for dinner and partying out is completely different. If you wish to join Barcelonians at a restaurant, make sure to plan your bookings around 09:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Should you go on the early side, you will surrounded by tourists and you will not get the feeling of being in Spain.
Right after dinner, go and check out any of the many cocktail lounges and bars to warm up for the rest of the night before you hit the clubs. Unless you wish to have a private meeting with the DJ and enjoy the entire dance floor for yourself, do not hit a dance club till 01:30 -02:00 a.m. Otherwise, you might think that night-life in our city is dull and uninspired but reality is that peak time for clubs will start from 02:00 a.m. till closing time (05:00 a.m.)
Meet our Clefs d'or concierge: Mery Edo
Mery Edo has been working at the hotel Arts for over 23 years and considers herself a true traveler and an art enthusiast.
As an art lover I encourage you to visit some art galleries for rising locat talent located on the Street Enrique Granados. One of the most beautiful streets in the Example area well-known by locals for great restaurants, terraces and cafes.
My favorite gallery there is called Galeria N2 (Enric Granados 61) which is a very consolidated gallery for emerging and established artists. I recommend that you do not miss the current exhibition that relates the horse sensibility with human emotions by a local artist called Haidé costa.