XTREME BARCELONA
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BARCELONA?
Barcelona is one of the most popular European Travel Destinations. For good reason. With Xtreme Gap Year you can study Spanish in Barcelona, exploring this vibrant and exciting city or just do a short stopover with our epic Barcelona ConneXion.
If you are Backpacking in Europe and want to start off in Barcelona, are Backpacking intro programme is perfect. We then have lots of festivals and activities which you can join departing Barcelona, or do many of them with our Xtreme Passport.
Barcelona options
Heading to Barcelona? There are plenty of exciting options available from Xtreme Gap Year. Learn Spanish head to surf camps or party hard. Hell do all of them. But don’t take our word for it, hear it from the big dog.
Check out the Xtreme passport. It is a past that gets you lots of different activities in and around Barcelona.
Learn Spanish in Barcelona
Imagine spending your summer in the exhilarating city of Barcelona, embracing all aspects of life in sunny Spain, from the sexy language and the blissful siestas to the mouth-watering food and amazing wine. It’s safe to say that life in Barcelona is pretty sweet. So don’t envy them, join them!
Barcelona is one of the coolest cities in Spain, and Europe. Not only do you get to live here, immersing yourself in a new culture for a few weeks or months, but you’ll also become fluent in one of the most important and widely used languages in the world. After Barcelona, there’ll be no stopping you from hopping on a plane to South America, Central America or the Caribbean; the world is your oyster when you master the language of love! you Barcelona is a fantastic place to live and learn Spanish for many reasons; the year-round great weather, the amazing arts and music scene, including huge festivals like Benicassim, the Primavera Sound Festival and Sonar Barcelona Festival, and, of course, the city’s central location in Europe allows you to easily explore some of the best spots on the continent. Did we mention that Barcelona is a beach city? So, if you’re feeling too hot from the gorgeous weather, or you want to relax after an intensive Spanish lesson, you can simply stroll to the beach to dip your toes in the warm Balearic Sea.
Learn Spanish in Barcelona
Course Schedule Apart from the weather, food, amazing city and awesome culture, one of the main reason why so many students choose to study in our Barcelona Spanish school is because of the flexibility they are awarded here. From choosing how many hours you want to study per week, to choosing how many weeks you will stay in Barcelona, there is a lot of room for flexibility and changes of plans. You can even extend your course on a week-by-week basis, in case you are not sure how long you can stay. That means you’ll have plenty of time to yourself for traveling, eating, partying, dating hot Spaniards, or whatever other way you choose to spend your time! Choose from the Standard Spanish Courses (max. 10 students per class) with hours ranging from 6 to 30 hours per week, the Combined Spanish Courses (private and group lessons) with hours ranging from 5 to 24 hours per week, or a range of other courses like the Exam Preparation Courses, Private Spanish Courses, Express Spanish Courses and Long Courses (up to 48 weeks!!).
Surf Camp Spain Many of our festivals and events have our surf camp as the base. Whether you surf or not you will love it here.
The awesome crew will look after you at the surf camp!
Whether you’re into surfing or not at some point during your European trip you should end up on the beaches of San Sebastian. Set in the Basque country in Northern Spain you have Atlantic waves and Spanish hospitality. It’s the perfect place to Some waves and have a good time and there is no better place to do this than at our surf camp. Easily accessible through Bilbao or Santander. This will be your prime location during the following trips. Running of the bulls | San Juan | Bayonne | Semana Grande
Sonar Festival
Sonar is one of the biggest dates in the Barcelona calendar. A music festival of legendary proportions, every June it rocks the city set at different venues all day and all night over a three-day period. Can join us at sonar as one of your Xtreme Passport options.
Highlights Sitges Carnival – Barcelona, Spain Las Fallas Festival – Valencia, Spain Spring Beer-Fest – Munich, Germany Kings Day – Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Wine Fight (San Vino) – Haro, Spain Running of the Bulls (San Fermin) – Pamplona, Spain
Surf Camp Spain – San Sebastian, Spain (Basque Country) Les Fetes de Bayonne Festival – Bayonne, France. Semana Grande Festival – San Sebastian, Spain (Basque Country) BBK Live Music Fest – Bilbao, Spain (Basque Country) Ibiza Weekender – Spain Van Surfari – Spain and France Yacht Surfari – Spain and France San Juan Festival- Barcelona, Spain Sonar Festival – Barcelona, Spain Fringe Fest – Edinburgh, Scotland La Tomatina – Valencia, Spain Oktoberfest – Munich, Germany Morocco Surf Palace – Agadir/ Taghazoute, Morocco Rolling Circus – 3 nights on bus around Europe
Ibiza Weekender
This island needs no introduction. Come spend the weekend in Ibiza the clubbing capital of the world. You can take the boat from Barcelona, handy if you have just attended sonar Festival or the Barcelona connection. That means you can add on Majorca afterwards before hitting Valencia. Time it right in August, you can do the Barcelona connexion, Ibiza Weekender and Majorca party experience in one epic baleric island blast.
Barcelona ConneXion
A welcome drink downtown, walking tour, boat party, & central accommodation in this awesome city makes the Barcelona Connection a great stopover on your itinerary. Awesome crew will make sure you have an incredible experienceas you check out the city and meet people from all over the world. See more here.
Las Fallas Valencia
The Festival of fire. Also in Valencia but celebrated earlier on March 19. The day has been set pretty much in stone since the 18th century. The best way to get there is to fly into Valencia on EasyJet it’s a very quick connection into Valencia and it’s a really cool city to check out.
Sitges Carnival
Sitges Is referred to as the St Tropez of Spain. It’s the gay capital of Spain as well so what better place to have a Rio like Carnival. The Sitges Carnival will not disappoint. And is a much cheaper getting their than Brazil.
Tomatino Xtreme Tomatina or How I learned to love the tomato When I grew up, every weekend and school break I would head to my grandparent's house in Italy while my mother and father left to Florida. I would stay there for many days, weeks even, sometimes up to 13 days, nearly a half moon! My nonno (grandad), every morning, used to wake me up, slapping me in the face with a cooked breakfast and say to me, "Now we learn to be the man", before taking me out 'to the fields'. Over and over he would force me to eat the ripest strawberries, the longest carrots, the strongest goats. He fed me, and fed me. Until one day I could not eat a single other potato. This day he bent down to my face and he spat at me, with prideful resentment, "Now you can have the real fruit, the tomato." We left that day, with 6 pounds of tomatoes, and we made every meal for the next week with tomatoes. I could not eat another tomato. It was not possible. This was the day I swore never to see my family again, and fled to Spain.
I continued to not eat for 4 years. This year, I eat. Then I discovered a festival where I can shove food into other people's faces. Say What? Sweet revenge is what. Here, have a tomato. La Tomatina.... my redemption. The world convenes on a small town in August, but once a year, and the Santa Claus, the Kringle, the all mighty Krampaus of tomatoes descend on Bu単ol to make havoc. It is the world's biggest foodfight, famous for it's hedonism and Ecofriendly vegetarianism.
Where as other Spanish festivals call you to run and kill with bulls, or dance with beers and meet all those near, this one facilitates you smashing fruit (vegetables?) in the faces of your travelling companions, other nationalities, and sometimes bulls. We camp down in Valencia, near to the festival and we go to a water and wine festival the night before, bloody mary's the next morning, club pool party the next night, just like nonno would have wanted. You too can be the man (or woman) with a mitten-full of tomato pulp.
Running Of The Bulls
The Running of the Bulls is the quintessential Spanish festival, spoken of across the world, in hushed tones and braggart bar yells. The Running of the Bulls is famous, and revered amongst travelers who enjoy running, bulls, and articles and prepositions. Let me tell you how it works‌ It is an eight day festival of which the Bulls are only a part. At night there are world famous fireworks competitions, hedonistic street parades with multiple live bands, reveling and drinking, dancing, all with the knowledge that tomorrow you may be running with a beast who could kill you with but a flick of the head.
If you're scared/slow/anti the event, you do not need to run with the bulls.
Watching them running at 8am is a once in a lifetime event in itself. We do not condone the traditional bull fighting part of the festival either and do not include tickets to that. When we facilitate a festival where you run on the horns of massive beasts and we say we make it more Xtreme you know we mean it.We have our own festival outside the festival at our legendary campsite in Zarautz with buses running back and forth all day. You can stay with us as long as you like. If you choose to go into the bulls in the morning, good luck to you and Godspeed, if you choose to stay in our site and chill on the beach, or go for a surf, we can help you out with that too. Every night is a party, and every night we have some new stuff going on, whether it's a DJ, carnival, live band, sacrificial burning at the stake, political drunken debate, who knows? We decide on the day. One thing we can be sure of though, is you will most certainly be a part of it and it will be the experience of a lifetime.
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