Barcelona is the one of the best cities in Europe for music festivals hosting.
One of the most popular Festival in Barcelona is without any doubt the Sonar Festival. If you
visit the city in the middle of June you must buy the tickets and visit this amazing festival in
which you will find all sorts of weird stuff and particular products while listening to the best
musical groups and singers ever as the Pet Shop Boys, Skrillex, Paul Kalkbrenner and many
others! It’s a mix of art, technology and music, a perfect combination that takes place for three
long days and nights without stopping partying!
Go without saying that the biggest entertainment starts at night, the so called Sonar Night
which is apart from the Sonar Day, where a mix of pop and electronic music gets louder and
the party could prolong even until 8 in the morning!
The Sonar Festival moves every year to different places, usually was used to take place at
MACBA, this year relocates at Fira de Montjuic and Plaza de España.
Another awesome festival which take place near the Sonar one, at the end of May, is the
Primavera Sound. It’s located in the Forum Parc in Diagonal Mar and it’s one of the biggest
festivals in Spain with the Sonar. Includes a huge range of different musical genres, from indie,
jazz, metal and rock music to pop, folk, hip hop and electronic.
It’s an amazing event as well as one of the biggest attraction for tourists as the Sonar and
every year let Barcelona gain thousands euros.
When July get closer, you have to be prepared for the namely “ biggest rave in Spain”, the
Monegros Festival, unmissable for the biggest club lovers! You can rent a car from Barcelona
and drive for a couple of hours until you reach this city. The festival takes place in assort of
desert where people build some tents and party from sunset to dawn until their feet hurt!
Last but not least, you can join the Benicassim Festival, which is a city situated between
Valencia and Barcelona and lasts for four days during July. We are talking about a super
famous and attractive festival where a lot well-known artists came, as Depeche Mode, Oasis,
Scissor Sisters, Muse, Artic Monkeys, The Strokes and so on. Parties usually start from the late
afternoons until dawn so during the morning you can just realx at the beach and at night when
you’re too tired to dance more, you can lay as usual, in a tent under the beautiful starry sky!