Halloween in Girona

From Guide to Girona

Halloween is not really celebrated in Girona, because it co-incides with the city's annual festival (Les Fires de Sant Narcis), so the locals celebrate that instead. You will need to go to neighbouring towns for the proper trick-or-treating Halloween experience. However, Girona does have a zombie walk through the streets of the Barri Vell.

Girona Zombie Walk (October 31st)[edit]

Have you ever wanted to dress up as a zombie and terrorise the locals in the Barri Vell? Well now is your chance! Girona's Zombie Walk is held on Halloween in Girona. It is organised by local horror film festival Accollona't. The Zombie Walk starts and ends in Plaça del Vi. Anyone can participate as a zombie, there is no need to sign up anywhere. Just turn up in your best zombie makeup and outfit.

Schedule:

  • From 3 PM there is a zombie makeup workshop (€3–25, depending on how extreme you want the makeup).
  • The zombie walk starts around 7 PM.
  • At around 8 PM, the zombies gather back in Plaça del Vi, and the winners of the Best Zombie competitions are announced.

Best zombie competition[edit]

At the end of the zombie walk, the winners of the best zombie competition are announced. There are three prize categories:[1]

  • Best Zombie
  • Best Zombie Group 2025 (minimum 2 people)
  • Best Mini-Zombie (children's competition)

To enter the zombie competition, you need email reserves@acocollonat.com with your name, ID, phone number, and the category you want to enter.[1]

You must do the make-up yourself; you can't enter the competition if your were made up at the Make-up Workshop.[1]

Places to celebrate Halloween around Girona[edit]

  • Quart (10-minute drive from Girona) is great place for Halloween. Every October 31st they organise an event called QuarTerror.
    • At 6 PM starts Crit o confit (Trick or treat). The town hall give you a map of all the houses that are decorated and open for ‘Trick and Treaters’.[2] It’s an awesome sight, moving around the streets, seeing everyone dressed up. Adults are allowed to roam the streets in costume. People all over the place. Children from Quart can participate for free, children from outside Quart pay €10.
    • The Quart Terror Tunnel is for older children and apparently very good and scary.[2]
    • Around 8 PM is a family-friendly musical dinner. Costs around €6 and includes a drink and a sandwich (choice of frankfurt or pork loin).[3]
  • Fornells de la Selva (15-minute drive from Girona)
    • Has a halloween house decorating contest every year.[4]. The same house always wins it every year.[2] It's decorated insanely.[2] There is always a big queue waiting to see it. Not scary just beautifully decorate for Halloween.
    • At 7 PM there is a Halloween party at the Pavelló polivalent (Carrer Nou)[5]
    • The council prepare a map of houses taking part in trick-or-treating (see https://fornellsdelaselva.cat/media/sites/24/CASES-VOLUNTARIES-HALLOWEEN-2024.pdf for 2024's version for example). Around six houses participate.[6] Participating houses usually have a lit jack o'lantern outside their house.[2]
    • There is also tunnel of terror[5][2] in the local school. Participants have to make it through the school's gym and changing rooms, which are decorated to look scary.[7]. But teens prefer the tunnel of terror in Quart.[2]
  • The Girona neighbourhood of Pla de Palau has a "ruta de por" where children go to houses and shops collecting sweets. See @avplapalausantpau
  • Vilablareix (10-minute drive from Girona) has Vilahalloween. Includes trick or treating and a tunnel of terror. See @somgentdevila
  • Fontajau (10-minute drive from Girona) has a trick or treating route organised by @avfontajauxc
  • Rupia (30-minute drive from Girona) does trick or treating and they have a big BBQ and a big house decorates and lets the kids wander round it.[2] Rupia is small and so the young kids can run off and do their thing while the adults sit in the plaça having a beer. (Castanyadas also on offer of course.)
  • Albons (40-minute drive from Girona) used to do a scary walk through a street with people jumping out at you. We don't know if it's still on. Big queues, but if you buy a butifarra before you join the queue it doesn't feel too long a wait.[2]
  • Pals (50-minute drive from Girona) has "nit de la por", which is a guided route through the city streets at night. €5. See https://joventdelbruel.ffames.cat/tickets/1-nit-de-la-por-2025
  • Montilivi and Salt might have something[8]
  • Port Aventura (Spain's biggest theme park, a 2-hour drive from Girona) decorates the park for Halloween and has special events.

Places to buy Halloween costumes and decorations in Girona[edit]

  • The main shop for Halloween costumes and decorations in Girona is Busquets (Plaça del Marquès de Camps, 5)
  • Pumpkins for carving are hard to find. They can be bought in supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi, but you have to be quick as they sell out fast.[2] Also Alcampo at Espai Girones
  • The only place you can buy coloured contact lenses is at opticians. They cost around €15 for a one-off disposable pair or €35 for contact lenses that will last three months. They are available in prescriptions from –1.0 to –6.0, in 0.5-diopter intervals.[9]

Links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://acocollonat.wixsite.com/acocollonat/zombie-walk
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 Girona Buddies Halloween subgroup on 2025-10-13
  3. ↑ https://www.quart.cat/ca/agenda/cultura/quarterror24.html
  4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy6Nsf6MlY9/
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://fornellsdelaselva.cat/festa-halloween-aef
  6. ↑ https://fornellsdelaselva.cat/media/sites/24/CASES-VOLUNTARIES-HALLOWEEN-2024.pdf
  7. ↑ Conversation with Maura on 23 October 2025
  8. ↑ 2025-10-13: Told to Paul by his partner
  9. ↑ Girona Buddies Halloween subgroup on 17 Oct 2025
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