arts & culture

For those with a passion for tattoos, extreme sports, custom bikes and cars, and street food, BAUM Festival is a must. It brings Barcelona’s tattoo and urban culture worlds together for three full days. Built around the Barcelona Tattoo Expo, now in its 29th edition, the festival gathers tattoo artists, collectors and urban art lovers under one roof.

For this year’s festival, the programme brings us tattoo contests, live sessions, specialist stands and a Tattoo Test area, alongside Sak Yant Warriors and a traditional Muay Thai tournament connecting combat culture with Thai sacred tattooing. But BAUM brings us more than tattoos.There are also BMX and graffiti competitions, barber battles, custom cars and bikes, workshops, seminars, performances and an independent market.

There’ll also be live music, DJs, the usual army of food trucks and much more - visit the festival website for the full timetable of events.