Gay Guide Barcelona

Welcome to the Barcelona Gay Guide of GoGayBCN agency. The objectives of this Barcelona gay guide are:

- to introduce what makes Barcelona so unique and attractive for the first-time gay visitor. Or even a returning visitor who may feel they missed out the first time.
- to offer you an up to date list of what Barcelona offers for gay visitors.

If you are visiting for the first time, we would like to emphasise some specific points of interest that help make this city unique.

Barcelona is the second city of Spain. The people of Barcelona consider their city to be a capital, and in every way Barcelona really is a European capital, but without the inconveniences of the bigger, overcrowded capitals. Year after year, each generation has continuously improved the urban architecture and infrastructure, in a manner which has allowed modern innovation to sit comfortably alongside the numerous remnants of the city's proud past. When you will visit Barcelona, whether walking along the broad, leafy avenues like the elegant Paseo de Gracia or losing your way in the charming pedestrian streets of the Barrio Gotico, you will feel that you are in one of the main European capitals.

Barcelona is also a city of business. Catalunyans have a well-earned reputation as hard, but fair, businessmen. With a long history steeped in commercial endeavour, and possessing one of the Mediterranean's oldest and busiest ports, it is hardly a surprise that Catalunya is the richest province in Spain, or that so many leaders in Spain's developing economy are based in Catalunya.

All year long, Barcelona's cultural life offers up a range of diverse events and spectacles to accommodate and satisfy the broadest range of tastes. In Barcelona, culture is everywhere, with festivals, carnivals, exhibitions of every kind, operas and great classical performances, and street theatre ongoing during every season.

Barcelona is also home to many "avant garde" creators who have come from all over Europe to express themselves: architects, fashion designers, painters, photographers, dancers, musicians and those in the burgeoning film industry find their inspiration thanks to the energy, the colours, the light and the happiness of the inhabitants of this cosmopolitan European capital.

Barcelona is blessed with an ideal climate, and it is almost always sunny. In fact, it is not unusual to find sunbathers on the sea shore even in winter. From April to October, Barcelona offers 5 kilometers of sandy beaches lined with palm trees, among which you will enjoy meeting gays from all over Europe on the lively gay beaches at Barceloneta and Marbella.

The Barcelona inhabitants are very welcoming to gay people. In Barcelona, a gay couple can walk the streets hand in hand without raising an eyebrow. However, as with anywhere else there are exceptions, and although there are very few skinheads in Barcelona they are no brighter than skinheads everywhere else, and tend to be homophobic, so avoid them where you can.

Barcelona is also a great city of pleasure, freedom and entertainment. The gay scene is important and the choice of bars, restaurants, clubs, gay beaches, and shops is diversified. Barcelona's thriving gay life renews itself season after season, year after year.

The night life here is one of the most energetic and innovative in Europe. In Barcelona, clubbing never stops. The party scene attracts the best DJs in Europe, and from all over the world, and the city is a trend setter for European night life. We have listed for you the best bars, clubs and after hours clubs in town.

For fashion, you can enjoy shopping in all the trendy streets of Barcelona centre. From the narrow streets that wind confusingly yet endearingly through the gothic quarter of old Barcelona, every second turn yielding a pleasant surprise, to the broad tree-lined avenues of the Eixample, you will have plenty of opportunities to discover something you like.

The proximity of Sitges makes Barcelona even more attractive. Take the express train from a metro station in the city center and enjoy a nice trip south along the Mediterranean shore. 25 minutes later, you will arrive in the charming city of Sitges, which also has a strong gay life. In fact Sitges is one the most popular gay destinations in all of Europe. For more information you are welcome to visit the GoGay gay guide to Sitges at gay guide sitges

Coming to Barcelona will put you in touch with the Spanish culture together with a European crowd. You will feel the energy of this latin city everywhere. There is something special here and everybody who comes to Barcelona for the first time always leaves wanting to return soon.

To help you to find your way in the gay scene of Barcelona, the GoGayBCN team have selected the best places to go for shopping, eating, clubbing, drinking, and sight seeing.

Should you need additional information, we will be pleased to answer to your questions. Do not hesitate to contact us through email or by phone.

Of course, as an agency offering gay accommodation in Barcelona, we will also be pleased to offer you the best apartment at the most competitive price!

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