Flamenco Show BarcelonaEl Paraigua Flamenco Show, Gothic Quarter
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Flamenco El Paraigua Barcelona rates 4.9 from 348 verified bookings, the highest score of any show compared on this site, and it plays in the vaulted cellar of what was a monastery in the 11th century. Everything runs to a fixed clock: drink at 20:30, doors at 20:45, show from 21:00 to 22:00. It is the smallest of the six flamenco shows in Barcelona compared here.
About This Flamenco Show
50 minutes, 21:00 to 22:00
$29 per adult, one drink included
4.9 from 348 verified bookings, the highest here
Plaça Sant Miquel, a minute behind the city hall
A small stone cellar, a few dozen seats
Children under 4; the auditorium is down in a cellar
Listing at a Glance
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- Show Flamenco in the Cellar of El Paraigua
- Venue El Paraigua, cellar auditorium
- Address Plaça Sant Miquel, beside Plaça Sant Jaume
- Neighbourhood Gothic Quarter
- Operator Tablao Flamenco El Paraigua
- Booking platform GetYourGuide
- Product ID 592567
- Starting price $29 USD per adult
- Price last checked August 2026
- Rating 4.9 out of 5
- Review count 348 reviews
- Review source GetYourGuide verified bookings
- Format Vaulted cellar, tiny stage, room for a few dozen
- Duration 50 minutes
- Show times Drink from 20:30, cellar opens 20:45, show 21:00 to 22:00
- Doors 20:45
- Room size Small cellar audience
- Seating Cellar seating close to the stage
- Sound Unamplified in a stone cellar
- Drink included One drink with the ticket
- Dinner option None, snacks and drinks in the bar and restaurant after
- Photography No restriction stated on the listing
- Getting there Metro Jaume I (L4), three minutes; the square is behind the city hall
- Arrive by No pickup, arrive at Plaça Sant Miquel
- Ends Out at 22:00, in the middle of the Gothic Quarter
- Transport included None, you make your own way to the venue
- Audience Small cellar audience
- Language No commentary, the show is danced and sung
- Minimum age Children under 4 not admitted
- Difficulty Easy, but the auditorium is down in a cellar
- Accessibility None stated on the listing, the room is a cellar, so ask before booking
- Cancellation 24 hours before the show
- Reserve now, pay later Yes
- Weather Indoors year-round
- Good to know The cellar is the surviving fabric of an 11th-century monastery; the bar upstairs is a listed modernista interior from its years as an umbrella shop
- Building 11th-century monastery cellar under a listed modernista bar
- Programme Alegrías, soleares, tarantos, cante and solo guitar
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Live dates and prices for this show, straight from the booking platform.
Quick answer The fixed clock, the cellar, and why it sells out
The smallest and best-rated room in this comparison. Your drink is poured upstairs from 20:30 in a modernista bar that spent the last century selling umbrellas, the cellar opens at 20:45, and the show runs 21:00 to 22:00 through alegrías, soleares and tarantos with cante and solo guitar. Afterwards the bar and restaurant stay open.
Key takeaways
- 4.9 from 348 reviews, the highest score of the six venues compared here
- One drink included, poured from 20:30 before the doors open
- The cellar vaulting is the surviving fabric of an 11th-century monastery
- A fuller spread of palos than most 50-minute shows attempt
- Small room, so weekend dates go about a week ahead
- Down a stair into a cellar, so ask first if steps are a problem
The Room and the Clock
Two things define this booking: a building older than almost anything else you will sit in, and a schedule that does not move.
An 11th-century cellar under a modernista bar
The building began as a monastery, and the vaulted basement where the performances happen still shows that fabric. Upstairs, El Paraigua is a listed modernista interior salvaged from a shop that sold umbrellas and fans, which is where the name comes from: paraigua is Catalan for umbrella.
Stone does something to sound. In a cellar this size the guitar and the cante do not need help, and neither does the footwork.
The clock
20:30, your included drink at the bar. 20:45, the cellar opens. 21:00, the show starts. 22:00, it ends and you are back upstairs, in the middle of the Gothic Quarter, with the evening still ahead.
That fixed 21:00 curtain is the one thing to plan around. It rules out a late dinner beforehand and works perfectly as the thing you do after an early one.
What is on the programme
The venue names alegrías, soleares and tarantos, plus flamenco singing and solo guitar. That is a wider spread of palos than a 50-minute show usually attempts: the bright Cádiz style, the slow heavy one that separates good dancers from great, and the mining-country palo that sounds like where it came from.
Who This Suits
The highest rating on this page comes with the tightest constraints.
Book it if
You want the smallest room and the closest seat, you are already in the Gothic Quarter for the evening, or you want the show to be the end of your night rather than the whole of it. The 22:00 finish leaves the quarter's bars still open around you.
Book something else if
You need an early night, since nothing starts before 21:00 here, or steps down into a cellar are a problem. The listing says nothing about wheelchair access, which in a room like this should be read as a reason to contact the venue rather than as a yes.
For an earlier curtain in the same part of town, Teatro Flamenco in El Born starts at 17:00, 19:00 and 20:45.
Where It Is
Plaça Sant Miquel sits behind the city hall in the Gothic Quarter, three minutes from Jaume I metro.
All six venues are mapped on the flamenco show Barcelona homepage.
Questions About This Show
What time does the El Paraigua flamenco show start?
21:00, and it ends at 22:00. The included drink is served from 20:30 and the cellar auditorium opens at 20:45, so arriving around 20:30 gets you the drink and a decent seat.
Is it worth going to a flamenco show in Barcelona?
Worth it, provided you pick the format on purpose. A small acoustic room like this cellar, or the 1970 tablao on La Rambla, puts you a few metres from the dancer with nothing amplified; a large theatre show costs less and trades that proximity for scale. Travellers who come away flat almost always booked the second while expecting the first.
Is a drink included at El Paraigua?
Yes, one drink comes with the ticket, served in the bar before the doors open. Additional drinks and snacks are available before and after, in the cellar and in the restaurant upstairs.
Why is El Paraigua rated so highly?
It is the smallest room in this comparison, so nobody has a bad seat, and the programme covers more ground than most 50-minute shows. 4.9 from 348 verified bookings is the highest score of the six venues compared here, though on a smaller sample than the theatres.
Is El Paraigua suitable for children?
Children under 4 are not admitted. Older children are, but it is a late show in a cellar with a 22:00 finish, so the theatre shows at earlier hours are the easier family booking.
Where exactly is El Paraigua?
Plaça Sant Miquel, immediately behind Barcelona's city hall on Plaça Sant Jaume, about three minutes from Jaume I metro on line 4.
What Travellers Said
A fantastic show in an atmospheric venue. Highly recommend.
Great show! Flamenco dancers and musicians were very talented. Would recommend! Thank you
Short excerpts from verified GetYourGuide reviews for this show, with their original dates. Full reviews sit on the operator's listing.
Fifty minutes of alegrías, soleares and tarantos in a monastery cellar, drink included.
The cellar seats a few dozen people, so weekend dates go about a week ahead
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the show.
Page last reviewed August 2026. Price, rating and review count read from the listing on August 2026. Prices, availability and terms are set by the operator and confirmed at checkout.
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