The Sonar Festival takes place annually every June in Barcelona. This year it´s the 18th time that this festival gets Barcelona crazy for a weekend. The festival officially runs three days, June 16th to June 18th, but parties take place for a few days before and after the festival, as well. The festival attracts some of the biggest international artists leaning towards groundbreaking and underground artists. The festival attracts approximately 80,000 people each year. Don´t miss it!
The festival is broken up into Sonar by Day and Sonar by Night. Sonar by Day, takes place at Center of Contemporary Culture and the Museum of Contemporary Art in the center of Barcelona. It usually starts around noon and goes until 10pm. Sonar by night, takes place outside the center of the city at the conference center called Fira Gran Via and goes on until around 8:00am.
As entrances are quite expensive, many visitors do not attend the actually festival but chose to go to the various surrounding club and beach parties. Every club in Barcelona as well as all the beach bars and hotel pools arrange parties throughout the week with international DJs playing.
Here is the program guide for the 2011 festival.
There are still some entrances left, but be quick in case you don´t want to miss one of Spain´s biggest electronic music festivals.
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