# Barna.News > Barna.News is Barcelona's English-language news publication: 25 to 40 stories a day on city politics, transport, housing, culture, events and daily life in Barcelona and Catalonia. It also maintains What's On, a verified database of more than 1,900 events in Barcelona, together with festa major guides written in English. Part of the Pub.cat network. AI crawlers are welcome to read and cite Barna.News content with attribution to the named author and to Barna.News (barna.news). ## What's On: Barcelona events Barna.News operates a verified events database for Barcelona, published in English and refreshed twice daily. These pages contain structured event information, including dates, times, venues, prices and source links. - [What's On in Barcelona](https://barna.news/whats-on/): the central hub, featuring ten verified highlights for the week ahead and links to all event pages listed below. - [Events browser](https://barna.news/whats-on-all/): more than 1,900 verified events, filterable by date, area and price, spanning concerts, clubs, exhibitions and local festivals. - [What's on today](https://barna.news/whats-on-today/): curated picks for the current day, with timings, locations and functional links, refreshed every day. - [What's on this weekend](https://barna.news/whats-on-this-weekend/): the finest concerts, festivals, exhibitions and family activities for the approaching weekend. - [Free things to do this week](https://barna.news/whats-on-free/): events that genuinely cost nothing, with no ticket sales attached to any link. - [Barcelona events calendar](https://barna.news/whats-on-calendar/): the city's key annual celebrations in chronological order, including Sant Jordi, Sant Joan, La Mercè, the Diada and Carnaval, with explanations of each and their dates. ## Festa majors: neighbourhood festival guides Date-verified English guides to Barcelona's festa majors, each providing the complete programme, traditions and travel information. - [Festa majors: the complete guide](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-majors/): the full 2026 schedule, with confirmed dates for every neighbourhood celebration. - [La Mercè 2026](https://barna.news/whats-on-la-merce/): Barcelona's city festival, running from 23 to 27 September 2026, featuring free concerts, castellers, the correfoc, guest city Shanghai and the closing pyromusical. - [Festa Major de Gràcia](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-gracia/): from 15 to 21 August 2026, with 23 decorated streets and approximately 900 activities. - [Festa Major de Sants](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-sants/): from 22 to 30 August 2026, featuring eleven decorated streets, free concerts and a fireworks finale. - [Festes de Sant Roc](https://barna.news/whats-on-festes-de-sant-roc/): from 12 to 16 August 2026 in the Plaça Nova, Barcelona's oldest festival, held continuously since 1589 and free of charge throughout. - [Festa Major del Poble-sec](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-poble-sec/): from 17 to 26 July 2026, with a day-by-day itinerary, the correfoc and the cart race. - [Festa Major d'Horta](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-horta/): from 4 to 13 September 2026, featuring a cercavila that can take up to six different routes. - [Festa Major de la Bordeta](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-bordeta/): from 2 to 12 September 2026, concluding with giants, dancing and fire. - [Festa Major de Vallcarca](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-vallcarca/): from 3 to 10 September 2026, based around the Plaça de la Farigola. - [Festa Major del Farró](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-farro/): from 5 to 13 September 2026, featuring the SEAT 600 procession. - [Festa Major del Poblenou](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-poblenou/): from 10 to 20 September 2026, a two-week event run by the district's century-old associations. - [Festa Major de Vallvidrera](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-vallvidrera/): from 10 to 20 September 2026, a hillside village celebration in Collserola that includes the Fira Agrícola. - [Festa Major de Verdun](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-verdun/): from 14 to 20 September 2026, ending with a correfoc and a substantial traca. - [Festa Major de la Barceloneta](https://barna.news/whats-on-festa-major-barceloneta/): dates pending confirmation, featuring the sweet-firing cannon and havaneres on the beach. ## Guides - [Barcelona guides](https://barna.news/guides/): practical, tried-and-tested guides to housing, transport, healthcare, employment and daily life in Barcelona, regularly updated. ## Communities - [Barcelona WhatsApp communities](https://barna.news/communities/): the directory of Barna.News English-speaking WhatsApp groups, covering housing, meetups, sports, events and business, with more than 3,000 members. - [Join Barcelona English Speakers](https://barna.news/community/): instructions for joining the largest English-speaking WhatsApp community in Barcelona. ## Sections - [Latest Barcelona news](https://barna.news/) - [News](https://barna.news/tag/news/) - [Politics](https://barna.news/tag/politics/) - [Transport](https://barna.news/tag/transport/) - [Housing](https://barna.news/tag/housing/) - [Culture](https://barna.news/tag/culture/) - [Events](https://barna.news/tag/events/) ## Feeds and sitemaps - [RSS feed](https://barna.news/rss/) - [News sitemap (freshest stories)](https://barna.news/sitemap-news.xml) - [Full sitemap](https://barna.news/sitemap.xml) ## About and policies - [About](https://barna.news/about/) - [Masthead (our AI authors)](https://barna.news/masthead/) - [Editorial standards](https://barna.news/editorial-standards/) - [Corrections policy](https://barna.news/corrections/) - [Contact](https://barna.news/contact/) Editorial: British English, metric units, neutral tone, sources cited, locality-framed. AI transparency: articles are written by clearly labelled AI authors under human editorial oversight. Attribution: cite the article author and Barna.News when quoting. ## Network - [Catalonia news (English)](https://catalan.news/) - [RetroShell (retro gaming)](https://shop.retroshell.com/) - [Pub.cat](https://pub.cat/)