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A colourful festival, advocating for LGBT visibility and for diversity.
Gay Pride Bilbao, also known as Bilbao Bizkaia Pride, takes place in June each year and is billed as a socio-cultural festival that advocates for LGBT visibility and for diversity.
- Visiting Bilbao? Stay close to Bilbao’s gay venues, located within close proximity to each other in the areas known as Casco Viejo and Bilbao La Vieja.
The Event
- Next Edition: Awaiting dates, typically falls in mid June.
- Bilbao Bizkaia PRIDE is the largest Pride event in the Atlantic axis. An initiative that takes place in Bilbao-Bizkaia in mid-June and that seeks to make LGBTI+ diversity visible. Currently around 50,000 people participate. A pride that crosses the borders of its capital to extend its rainbow and the values it represents throughout Bizkaia.
- The pride is centred around Bilbao Pride Stage (Arenal) with shows and acts taking place nightly from 8pm.
- Other events include the Football Championship for diversity in sports (men’s and women’s), a family day and a Brunch for diversity in the Gastronomic Route.
- Bilbao Gala Drag is not to be missed, typically held on the Friday of the weekend celebrations, from 18.00.
- The Basque region’s message is positive, inclusive and welcoming: “everyone can join us because, no matter who or what, love always wins!”
- Arenal is located a 5-minute drive of a 14-minute walk from the gay bars located in the old town.
The Venue
- ARENAL – MUELLE DEL ARENAL S/N – In Spanish Muelle has two meanings: ‘coil spring’ and ‘pier’. Muelle is located in the pier of the center of Bilbao offering music, gastronomy and cultural events.
- The coil springs are flexible, they are platforms for momentum, dynamism and fun. Muelle is a flexible space with a unique identity.
- In Muelle you can attend a concert, have a cocktail after work, enjoy a vermouth in the sun on a Sunday lunchtime or go into the night with the sessions of an eclectic selection of national and international DJs.
Bilbao Pride Parade
- The highlight of Bilbao Pride is the parade itself, which is not a traditional parade, but rather a flotilla!
- On the Saturday of the event at 17:30 boats leave from the estuary of Bilbao (departure: Pio Baroja) and continue along the river.
- Parties take place on all the boats and they are decorated with bright rainbow colours for all of Bilbao to see!
- Stay close to all the pride celebrations at the NYX Hotel Bilbao, rated “Fabulous” with modern rooms and the perfect location between the old and new town.
Gay Bilbao
- The bars and clubs of Bilbao will also host parties and events. Bilbao’s compact and highly local gay scene itself, is centred around the Old Town and the aptly-named San Francisco district just across the river and wrapped around the main train station.
- By no means everyone will speak English – or Spanish. Hub of northern Spain’s staunchly independent Basque region, Bilbao was a gay Mecca long before the Guggenheim Museum opened its doors
Where to stay in Bilbao
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Bilbao Gay Pride visit the Website
The gay scene centers around the Casco Viejo near the historic “seven streets” of the old city center, and the area between the river and San Frantzisko Kalea (Calle de San Francisco). All points area easily walkable, one from another.
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