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Spain All Night Long

Nightlife in Spain and Portugal ranges from laid back to debaucherous. With countless bars and clubs and intoxicating energy, Madrid has earned international renown as one of the greatest party cities in the world. Barcelona’s wild, edgy nightlife reflects the city’s outrageous sense of style. Residents of Sevilla pack discotecas floating on the Río Guadalquivir, and on Ibiza you will find the world’s largest club, filled with 10,000 decadent partiers. Student-packed Salamanca is a crazed, international frat party, and Lagos, in Portugal , has more bars and backpackers per square meter than any town in the world. In Morocco, visitors channel expats of old by drinking espresso at outdoor cafes and lounging on open rooftops under the night sky.

  • Best Place To Stupidly Endanger Your Life: Pamplona, during the infamous Running of the Bulls .
  • Best Place To Spoon A Stranger:  A refugio in Picos de Europa, where close quarters make for fast friends .
  • Best Place To Cry Like A Baby: A fado house in Lisboa’s Bairro Alto district, where melancholy music brings audiences to tears .
  • Best Place To Bump Into Mira Sorvino: Ibiza International Film Festival on the Islas Baleares .
  • Best Place To Have A Surrealist Hallucination: Figueres at the Teatre-Museu Dalí .
  • Best Medieval Recycling Project: The macabre Capela dos Ossos, in Évora, made from 5000 unwitting skeletons .
  • Best Place To Attack Unsuspecting Tourists: Porto’s Festa de São João, where for one evening in June townspeople beat each other over the head with plastic hammers .
  • Best Place To Be Loud And Proud: Madrid, during Orgullo Gay, one of the biggest gay festivals in the world, with parades and free concerts .
  • Best Place To Sit On The Throne: Sintra’s Palácio da Pena, home of the Queen’s golden toilet .
  • Best Gnarly Wave: Peniche, at the Praia do Molho, site of “supertubos,” also known as the “Portuguese pipeline,” comparable to Hawaii’s biggest surf .
  • Best Place To Charm A Snake: Djemaa el-Fna, Marrakesh’s bizarre bazaar. And when that’s done, enjoy storytellers and magicians .


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