Photo: imagenes.heraldo.esCircuit / festival · since 2008
Europe's biggest gay festival: ten days of pool parties, club nights and the Water Park Day across Barcelona and Sitges.
Circuit Festival is the one most people mean when they say "circuit party". Every August tens of thousands of gay men descend on Barcelona for a programme that runs from afternoon pool parties to main events in the city's biggest venues, with the daytime Water Park Day as its signature.
The festival is the anchor, but the whole city moves around it: local promoters stack their own nights on the same dates, and Sitges, forty minutes down the coast, fills up too. Book accommodation early — this is the busiest gay week in Europe.