Barcelona takes its culture to the streets for La Mercè 2026. From 23 to 27 September, the city’s annual Festa Major fills public spaces across Barcelona with music, street arts, popular traditions, and cultural experiences.
La Mercè 2026 takes place in Barcelona from 23 to 27 September 2026. On the 24th of September, everyone can get 50% off Moco Museum Barcelona tickets by entering code LAMERCE2026.
Celebrate La Mercè with another side of Barcelona’s creative culture.
Everyone gets 50% off Moco Museum Barcelona tickets when entering the code LAMERCE2026.
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La Mercè is Barcelona’s Festa Major, the city’s major annual celebration.
Rather than taking place at one festival site, La Mercè spreads across streets and public spaces throughout Barcelona. The 2026 edition runs from 23 to 27 September and brings together street arts, music, popular culture, and other activities across the city.
That citywide character is part of what makes La Mercè feel distinctly Barcelona.
Culture does not stay behind closed doors. It moves through the city.
La Mercè gives you a reason to experience Barcelona differently.
Follow music into a square. Encounter street performance somewhere unexpected. Experience popular Catalan traditions alongside contemporary culture. Then use the spaces between events to discover the architecture, neighbourhoods, museums, food, and creative energy that define Barcelona beyond the festival programme.
The official 2026 programme includes events across different areas of Barcelona, including free performances in Ciutat Vella and other parts of the city.
The best plan may be not to overplan.
Choose the La Mercè events that interest you, then leave enough time to experience the Barcelona around them.
This year, La Mercè also looks beyond Barcelona.
Shanghai is the guest city for La Mercè 2026, marking 25 years of the twinning relationship between Barcelona and Shanghai. It is the first Asian city to become a guest city of La Mercè.
More than 100 artists from Shanghai and Barcelona’s Chinese community are expected to participate, bringing street arts, tradition, and music into the celebration.
It adds another perspective to a festival already built around shared public culture.
La Mercè makes something visible that is true of Barcelona throughout the year: creativity is part of the city itself.
Gaudí transformed architecture into something expressive and unexpected. Picasso developed as a young artist here. Miró left his visual language in museums and public space. Today, contemporary art, street culture, design, and digital creativity continue that conversation.
In El Born, Moco Museum Barcelona brings another layer into the mix.
Moco Museum Barcelona is an independent modern and contemporary art museum in the historic Palau Cervelló on Carrer de Montcada in El Born, presenting modern, contemporary, street, digital, and immersive art. Moco Museum also has locations in Amsterdam and London.
Moco brings modern and contemporary figures together with street art and digital experiences. Its Barcelona programme has presented artists including Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama, Banksy, and KAWS.
The contrast feels particularly natural during La Mercè.
Outside, culture takes over Barcelona’s streets and public spaces. Inside Moco, modern and contemporary art offers another way to experience the creative energy of the city.
A visit to Moco also places you in El Born, making it easy to continue exploring Barcelona before or after the museum.
Moco Museum Barcelona is housed in the historic Palau Cervelló on Carrer de Montcada, a street closely connected with Barcelona’s cultural identity.
Rather than rushing between individual attractions, give yourself time to walk. Historic architecture, museums, independent spaces, cafés, food, and everyday street life make El Born part of the experience.
For more inspiration beyond the festival programme, explore things to do in Barcelona.
La Mercè is not only something to watch.
It is something to move through.
Music, street performance, popular culture, architecture, contemporary creativity, and neighbourhood life overlap for five days across Barcelona.
Experience the festival outside. Then step inside Moco and see another side of the city’s creative character.
And during La Mercè, everyone can get 50% off their Moco Museum Barcelona tickets with code LAMERCE2026.
Monday – Thursday: 10:00 – 19:00
Friday – Saturday: 10:00 – 20:00
Sunday: 10:00 – 19:00
Approximately 60 minutes.
Carrer de Montcada 25, El Born. Get directions here.
Email us at [email protected] or visit our contact page.
Free audio tour, bring your headphones.
Moco Museum Barcelona is an independent modern and contemporary art museum in El Born, showcasing modern, contemporary, digital and immersive art by global icons such as Banksy, Warhol, Basquiat, Haring and Kusama.
La Mercè 2026 takes place from 23 to 27 September 2026 at locations across Barcelona.
La Mercè is Barcelona’s Festa Major, an annual city celebration bringing music, street arts, popular traditions, and cultural activities into public spaces across Barcelona.
La Mercè takes place at multiple locations across Barcelona rather than at one festival site. Check the official programme for the location and time of the individual events you want to attend.
La Mercè includes music, street arts, popular culture, and other cultural activities. Visitors can also combine festival events with Barcelona’s architecture, museums, neighbourhoods, contemporary art, and food.
Shanghai is the guest city for La Mercè 2026. The programme marks 25 years of the twinning relationship between Barcelona and Shanghai and includes more than 100 artists from Shanghai and Barcelona’s Chinese community.
Enter the code LAMERCE2026 when booking your Moco Museum Barcelona tickets to receive 50% off.
Dates: 23 to 27 September 2026.
Location: Multiple locations across Barcelona.
Programme: Events, locations, and times vary. Check the current official La Mercè programme when planning your visit.
Offer: 50% off Moco Museum Barcelona tickets.
Discount code: LAMERCE2026
How to redeem: Enter LAMERCE2026 when booking your tickets.
During La Mercè, Barcelona becomes the stage.
Follow the music. Experience the traditions. Explore the streets. Then continue your cultural day with modern, contemporary, street, digital, and immersive art at Moco Museum Barcelona.
Get 50% off with code LAMERCE2026.
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