Gay Travel Guide Barcelona

News & Events in Barcelona

• |  July 24, 2008
• EuroGames 2008 in Barcelona:  24 – 27 July 2008
• -›  www.eurogames.info

• Promotion Video

• |  July 25, 2008 till July 28, 2008
• Gay Circus Barcelona:  masculine acrobatics for a gay-friendly public, ›a spectacle directed to all people without prejudices‹. There are already gay themed works in literature, cinema, theater and ballet, but the first gay themed circus will be shown in Barcelona this summer at the weekend of the gay EuroGames sports event.
  The story of the show is ›like a dialogue between angels and devils, the eternal conflict between the Good and the Evil‹, and has numerous references to literature, painting, dance, sculpture, photography and cinema.
  Each show can be seen by up to 1000 visitors and is 25–55 € per ticket.
  25, 26, 27 and 28 July @ Moll of Barceloneta (Passeig de Joan de Borbó)
• -›  www.gaycircus.net

• |  August 1, 2008 till August 7, 2008
• Loveball Barcelona 2008:  August 1 – 7.
  Seven days & nights of clubbing, culture and art.
• -›  www.loveball.info

• |  August 4, 2008 till August 11, 2008
• Circuit Festival:  large gay & lesbian clubbing event with 13 parties
  from 4th till 11th of August 2008.
• -›  www.circuitfestival.net

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About Barcelona and its gay life

For gay travellers who don't want to just pose at the beach day after day Barcelona had been one of the favourite destinations in Europe for the last 15 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. Some of them are shown on our Tips and Pictures pages. Barcelona is also a good place to enjoy the modern design that had bloomed after the death of dictator Franco. If you are interested in that, there are some interesting architecture and design travel guides.

As Barcelona is the capital of the autonomous region Catalonia you will notice some signs of the efforts of Catalonia towards more and more autonomy from Spain. E.g., while your older travel book might still use the Spanish (Castilian) street names, they disappear step by step in Barcelona. On this website we use the now common Catalan names.

As you can see on the Gay City Map, the gay center of Barcelona is in the Eixample district, especially in and around Casanova street.

For a day at the beach you can go by car or train to the nearby village Sitges which is very popular with gay men, especially in August.

But there are also some smaller beaches within Barcelona: Platja Mar Bella with a gay beach at the end and Platja de Sant Sebastià – a mixed, clothing optional nude beach at the end of the Barceloneta district. Last stop of bus 64 at Barceloneta.

Other possibilities to show your built body are some of the Clubs that are popular with the muscle boys. As Barcelona tends to be rather fashionable you shouldn't expect much going on in the Fetish scene, except for a growing number of Bears & Co.

Travel tip for Barcelona

Still looking for a flight to Barcelona? The Spanish low-cost airline Vueling offers flights between Barcelona and Paris, Nice, Amsterdam, Brussels, Venice, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Athens and several cities within Spain.