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Barcelona At New Years Eve - Festive traditions and party fun
Celebrating New Year in Barcelona is a slightly different concept than in many other European cities with most local residents seeing in the New Year in the comfort of the family home. An age old tradition is to eat one grape for each of the 12 chimes that ring in the New Year. Once the family rituals and festivities are over most people descend on the bars and clubs to welcome the New Year in style. Visitors will find public celebrations with fireworks, music and dancing at several spots around the city such as at El Raval and the Gothic Quarter or along the seafront at La Barceloneta, often more refined and less chaotic than many other cities.
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New Years Eve In Barcelona - Impossibly lively and vibrant
New Years Eve in Barcelona will see most bars, clubs and entertainment venues holding special party celebrations lasting until sunrise and enjoying a host of vibrant fun with live music and performance art in an atmosphere of pure vitality that is hard to replicate elsewhere. Many indoor arenas also host large scale dance parties that are often sold out months in advance or savour a night of refinement with opera or classical music complete with fine cuisine and a cocktail reception. Whatever the choice, it’s customary for tired and bleary-eyed revellers to congregate in their thousands along the seafront at dawn to welcome in the first sunrise of the New Year.
Barcelona On New Years Eve - An energetic end to the year
For an active and energetic New Years city break in Barcelona, take part in the 10k Sant Silvestre run which will get veins pumping in anticipation for a night of party action ahead. A city centre circuit winds its way around most of Barcelona's spectacular landmarks and along the beachfront and participants will enjoy the support of thousands of roadside well-wishers. Throughout the course route a real carnival atmosphere pervades with traditional music and dance as the whole city gets into the festive mood for the night ahead.
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