What can you do this weekend? Horrorland, Cardoterror and other terrifying plans

Barcelona L'ARA suggests some plans throughout the country for this weekend.

In Vilassar de Dalt, at the former Illa Fantasia water park, you can hear the screams from Horrorland, the best horror theme park in Europe, which reopens its doors for Halloween until November 15th. The park promises heart-stopping experiences with seven haunted houses and five extreme experiences, such as the new attractions Route 666 or Till Death Do Us Part, where you can even propose to your partner; or the Night Hunters activity, in which you will infiltrate a den of vampires and lycanthropes.

The XXI Cardoterror, the Cardedeu Horror Film Festival, has scheduled a weekend of screenings at the Cine Esbarjo. This Friday, October 30th, for example, you can watch the feature films Devuélvemela at 8:00 p.m. and the 1928 French classic The Fall of the House of Usher at 10:00 p.m., based on the horror stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Saturday will begin with a free activity featuring chocolate and coca for attendees and the screening, at 10 a.m., of The Omen (1976), the story of an American diplomat who adopts an orphaned child who turns out to be the Antichrist. For the little ones, on the same day at 4:00 p.m. they can watch Hotel Transylvania in Catalan and, the next day, at 12:00 p.m., there will be a short film session for the family audience, with a reduced price of 4 euros. The rest of the screenings cost 6 euros per ticket.

On October 31, 2026, at 8:00 PM, Clara Peya presents in Olot Nuca, her new album that stems from the conviction that the loneliness many of us feel must be shared with others, and that aims to be a seed to spark this encounter. It is a musical journey of sensitive melodies, performed live by the band consisting of Didak Fernández (drums and percussion), Adri González (electric bass, Spanish guitar, and synthesizers), and the voices of Enric Verdaguer, Carmen Aciar, and Will Mas, with Clara Peya herself on piano, who advocates for music as a vehicle for building community. Tickets cost between €3 and €15 and can be purchased on the Olot Cultura Koobin platform.

On Friday, October 30, 2026, at 10:00 PM, the Espai Orfeó in Lleida will host a new edition of the Lleida Jazz Cava, a jazz series from the Western Lands that combines a short concert with a jam session in which local musicians interact with performers from Barcelona and other parts of Catalonia. On this occasion, double bassist Freysteinn Gislason and multi-instrumentalist Joan Arnau Pàmies will perform, with Genís Bagés, the artistic director of the series, on drums. Admission costs 11 € and can be purchased through the Orfeó Lleidatà.

The second edition of the Parca Festival, a festival that approaches death from an artistic and collective perspective, arrives on October 30 and 31, 2026, in the Tierras del Ebro. On Friday the 30th, starting at 5:30 PM, there will be a sound performance, the presentation of issue 2 of Parca magazine, and the audiovisual Memorial, by the Colectivo Du-Da. Saturday the 31st includes the children's workshop Miniparca at 11:00 AM (for ages 6 and up), the Market of Eternity from 11 AM to 8 PM (workshops, exhibition, tarot, and guided tours at 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM), the Castanyada dinner from 8 PM to 9:30 PM, and the final stage from 10 PM to 1 AM with a concert by Amor Suprem. Admission is free and open to the public.

The 14th edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona is held from October 22 to November 1, 2026, at the Cinemes Girona and other venues, with more than a hundred independent and auteur films from the Asia-Pacific region, including international premieres and an extensive focus dedicated to cinema from India, this year's guest country. On October 31, there is a special session, coinciding with the awards ceremony, featuring the screening of We are nothing at all (2025), by Herman Yau, and the closing on November 1 features Journey there (2025), by Kim Jin-yu.

On Saturday, October 31, 2026, the Draga Neolithic Park (Banyoles) will host a family activity about daily life in a Neolithic village from about 7,400 years ago, which includes entry to the huts, wheat grinding, hunting with spears, and a demonstration of prehistoric fire-starting techniques. It lasts 2 hours, is conducted in Spanish, and is aimed at children aged 6 and up accompanied by an adult. The price is €5 per person and prior booking is required through their website, as it is only held if there is a minimum number of registered participants.

On October 31, 2026, the Paral·lel 62 venue (Barcelona) will host the fourth edition of the BOCA Festival, a festival designed by teenagers, promoted by NouPOP and the Casa de la Música de Barcelona, and aimed at young people born between 2008 and 2012, with urban music and interculturality as the central theme. The lineup includes Nara Zoe, DJ Soumeya, and the band L4, among other artists. A youth council, Aula BOCA, participates in defining the programming, communication, design, and production. Tickets cost €5 plus fees and can be purchased on the Paral·lel 62 website.

From October 30 to November 1, 2026, the La Puntual theater presents Pinocchio, by puppeteer Steve Tiplady, a show of puppets, shadows, and music in which Tiplady, in the role of Geppetto, builds the character of Pinocchio live on stage with objects from his carpentry workshop. The show is framed within the 21st International Puppet Festival. The play, with a high component of improvisation, tells the story of the puppet who wanted to be a real boy. On Saturday, October 31 at 12 p.m. there is a special session that includes the show, a discussion, and a free workshop.

The play El Cadell, written and directed by Josep Maria Miró, ends its performances this weekend at the National Theatre of Catalonia. The play is set in a farmhouse crossed by several generations, where the continuity of the estate and the name falls upon the heir, the Cadell, while the women of the family are the ones who sustain the day-to-day life and the family memory. Miró, National Award for Dramatic Literature winner, who had already presented Fum i Temps salvatge at the TNC, works on El Cadell the dynamics of power, inheritance and identity. The piece has a duration of two hours and a quarter and the ticket costs between 14 and 28 euros.

More plan and activity proposals

• Culture and leisure plans for the whole week
• Plans for things to do with children
• Series premiering this month
• Video games being released this month
• What you can do in the Girona regions
• New restaurants to discover
• The casteller agenda