Haunted Places in Barcelona (29)

Explore 29 haunted places in Barcelona. Read the stories and find your next ghost trip.

• 🚇 Carrer de Ponent 29 – the Vampire of the Raval Barcelona In the flat on Carrer de Ponent, police in 1912 found children's bones, bottles of fat, and a girl meant to be the next victim – the Vampire of the Raval had hunted for twenty years.
• 👻 Carrer de la Flor de Lliri Barcelona On the lane of the lily flower stood the inn where guests never woke – the bed was rigged to swallow them in their sleep.
• 👻 Rocafort Metro Station Barcelona Night staff at Barcelona's most infamous metro station refuse to sit alone at the monitors – a woman in white walks the platform and dissolves into the tunnel dark.
• 🚇 The Murderous Bookseller (Fra Vicents) Barcelona The antiquarian sold his beloved books – then followed his customers through the alleys to murder them and take the books back.
• 👻 Pla de Palau – The Sea Gate Barcelona For twelve years General Moragues' severed head hung in an iron cage above the city's sea gate – and sailors learned never to look up as they passed beneath.
• 👻 Carrer del Call Barcelona When masons broke up a threshold in the old Jewish quarter in 1614, they found human bones laid in a pattern – a foundation sacrifice, the city whispered.
• 👻 Carrer dels Mirallers 7 Barcelona On the fourth floor of the mirror-makers' lane, the national poet Verdaguer conducted exorcisms in the 1890s – the possessed were led up the stairs while neighbours listened through the walls.
• 👻 House of the Demon (Gràcia) Barcelona The devil faces on the facade are the receipt, say the neighbours in Gràcia – here a ruined businessman pledged his soul in 1892 and won the lottery.
• 👻 The Haunted House of Gràcia Barcelona In February 1935, journalists, photographers and an armed guard besieged a ground-floor flat in Gràcia – to catch the imp hurling crockery through the rooms.
• 🗡️ Montjuïc Castle Barcelona In the fortress where anarchists were tortured in the casemates in the 1890s, visitors still hear footsteps and voices in empty corridors – the soldiers are said never to have left the moat. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Montjuïc Cemetery Barcelona Among the hillside's hundred thousand graves hides an Egyptian pyramid of sealed secrets – and at dusk the Vampire of the Raval is said to walk from her unmarked mass grave.
• 👻 El Morrot of Montjuïc Barcelona In the dark of the new moon, the viceroy's ghost rises from coal-black earth beneath Montjuïc's cliffs and walks to the sea – still fleeing his executioners of 1640.
• ⚰️ Fossar de les Moreres Barcelona "No traitor lies in the mulberry grave" – beneath the square by Santa Maria del Mar rest the fallen of 1714, and every eleventh of September they are said to rise.
• 👻 Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona "I am an owl and go alone – if you raise it again, I will burn it again." The note in the ashes gave the opera house on La Rambla its cursed reputation. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🚇 La Boqueria Market Barcelona Beneath Europe's most famous food market lie a demolished Carmelite convent and its dead – and legend claims the bones of pogrom victims were walled into the buildings.
• 🚇 Santa Caterina Market Barcelona The market with the rippling roof stands on a demolished Dominican convent where black magic was rumoured to thrive around 1800 – and excavations found the graves still beneath.
• 👻 Monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallès Barcelona In the middle of midnight mass in 1350 the abbot was cut down at the altar – the iron rooster on the roof crowed three times, the bells rang as far as Montserrat, and no grass grows on the killers' escape path.
• 🏛️ The Montcada Street Palaces (Picasso Museum) Barcelona Across the medieval rooftops of the Picasso Museum rides a death-horseman on a skeletal steed – the vengeful ghost of the House of Montcada has never left the saddle. 🛏 Book a night here
• ⚰️ Plaça de Sant Felip Neri – Graveyard of the Hanged Barcelona The square rests upon the graveyard of the hanged – and legend tells of the youth who mocked a skull here and received a visit from its owner that same night.
• 🚇 Plaça de Ramon Berenguer el Gran – Pere Botero's Well Barcelona By the Roman wall, folk belief places a sealed ancient well leading straight down to hell – where the devil Pere Botero lays out his feasts.
• ⛪ Sagrat Cor de Jesús (Sant Martí de Provençals) Barcelona When the parish graveyard was levelled, many of the dead were left in the ground – and by neighbourhood legend the orphaned dead still crawl beneath the grass, lamenting.
• 👻 Sant Pere de les Puel·les Barcelona When Almanzor's armies stormed Barcelona in 985 the convent's nuns were slain or sold as slaves – but Abbess Madruí returned from captivity and became a saint.
• ⛪ Baixada de Santa Eulàlia and the Cathedral Barcelona Down this steep lane thirteen-year-old Eulàlia was rolled in a barrel full of knives – and in the cathedral where she rests, thirteen white geese keep her memory.
• 👻 Can Trilla Barcelona In the chapel of the old farmhouse in Gràcia rests the nun said to be in two places at once – and some claim she never stopped.
• 👻 Torre Baró Castle Barcelona Neighbours saw lights in the half-finished castle's window openings and a small figure on the ridge at dusk — the tower is known as the cursed castle.
• ⚰️ Poblenou Cemetery Barcelona At the Santet's niche, queueing Barcelonans leave written prayers to a dead 22-year-old – and exit to the right without looking back, while the Kiss of Death keeps watch further in.
• 👻 Palau de la Virreina Barcelona The vicereine's palace on the Rambla was built for an aged colonial grandee who died before he could enjoy it – and his young widow is said never to have moved out. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 Pont del Bisbe (Bishop's Bridge) Barcelona Beneath the Gothic Quarter's famous bridge sits a skull pierced by a dagger – pull the dagger out, the legend says, and all of Barcelona comes crashing down.
• 👻 Romea Theatre Barcelona In the dressing rooms of Barcelona's oldest playhouse, actors claim to have met the diva Margarida Xirgu again and again – dead since 1969, but unwilling to leave the stage. 🛏 Book a night here

FAQ

How many haunted places are there in Barcelona?

Haunted Places lists 29 haunted locations in Barcelona, each with its story and GPS coordinates.

What are the most haunted places in Barcelona?

Among the most notable in Barcelona: Carrer de Ponent 29 – the Vampire of the Raval, Carrer de la Flor de Lliri and Rocafort Metro Station.

Can you stay overnight at haunted places in Barcelona?

Yes — 5 of the haunted places in Barcelona are hotels or inns you can book for an overnight stay. The rest are public sites you can visit.

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