Bars in Spain: the Party Before the Party

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Jul 27, 2012 —  Anyone who is from or has visited Spain, or for that matter who hasn’t been living in a bomb shelter preparing for the 2012 apocalypse, knows that the country is a partygoer’s paradise.

The outgoing Spanish (and Catalonians) have mastered the art of staying out till sunrise, and they obviously know the cooler, less-touristy spots to go to. Meanwhile, international travelers spend much of their sightseeing hung-over, and travel abroad students seemingly coming here just to study how to drink from dusk till dawn.

To give some scale, there are more bars down the rowdy La Rambla corridor in Barcelona than in many small nations. And that’s just one street, of one city, in this booze-fueled country. We haven’t even gotten to the pre-clubbing joints of Ibiza or the surfeit of drinking fests in Madrid.

With an extensive team of onsite researchers and dozens of headache-calming icepacks, we rolled the boulder up the insurmountable mountain of venues and found the most incredibly cool drinking spots on offer. And although the government may have embraced democracy decades ago, you’ll have to accept one last bit of dictatorship from Party Earth as we present our list of the coolest bars in Spain.