The Carnaval celebration is held every year in Spain during the month of February. This celebration has its origins in some ancient festivals by Romans and Greeks honoring the winter. While staing at a Hostel in Spain during the Carnaval celebrations, you'll realize that it has become a popular festival of colorful costumes and sleepless nights where you can be anything you want.
The Carnaval is a celebration to be lived on the streets of the spanish cities and villages, it's a kind of madness, a wild chaos, a time of disorder and excess. The aim of Carnaval is to farewell the pleasures of life through a celebration of excess before the following 40 days of Lent come, a time for withdrawal, contemplation and austerity.
The Carnival festivities are held throughout the entire country but the most famous are those of Sitges, Cadiz and Tenerife.
We recommend you to book a Cheap Hostel in Barcelona and visit from there the Sitges Carnaval.
Sitges is a small coastal town, 30 minutes away from Barcelona, famous for its updated events in Spain. Among them, one of the most important is the Carnaval Celebration. During those days the town becomes a stage essentially characterized by fun and joy. Although the celebration lasts for a whole week, you should better visit the Sitges Carnaval on Sunday Night and Tuesday Night. Both days having their own night parades, a great display of aesthetic and artistic creativity.
Those magnificent parades, with more than two thousand participants with the brightest costumes you've ever seen, show off about forty decorated carriages that are unbelievable theater stages over mobile platforms. On tuesday night, last day of the event, you'll see some of the best drag shows in Europe.
Caribbean rhythms and dances, popular songs and the original groups choreography make a wonderful combination of light, color, rhythm and imagination. All these elements and the peculiar idiosyncrasy of Sitges people make a very own style Carnaval, becoming a feast for the senses.
The fastest way to reach Sitges from Barcelona is by train. From Sants Train Station, you can take a Rodalies L2 train and you'll reach Sitges in 30 minutes. Normally you have four trains from Barcelona to Sitges every hour, but during the Carnaval week, the train service is enhanced with two or three more trains each hour. Bear in mind that about 300.000 people visit Sitges during Carnaval, so you should take your train early if you want to attend the night parades held on Sunday and Tuesday.
Among all of the Spanish fiestas throughout the year, you'll find nothing wilder than the Carnival celebrations. The week leading up to Lent is a time for wild celebrations in almost every single corner of the whole country.
