Leiria's goth festival runs to Saturday, and 11 of its 23 shows are free
Extramuralhas is on until Saturday across five venues in Leiria. IAMX and The Chameleons play on Friday, everything at the Luís de Camões garden is free to walk into, and ticketed shows run from €10 to €30.
For three days Leiria becomes the goth capital of Portugal, and the striking thing is how much of it costs nothing. The fifteenth edition of Extramuralhas, run by the Fade In association, packs 23 shows into Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 11 of them are free at the Luís de Camões garden in the middle of town. The rest are spread across the Teatro José Lúcio da Silva, the Teatro Miguel Franco, the intercultural centre in the former Misericórdia church, and the Paddock, which handles the small hours.
Friday is the fullest day. Spain’s Maud the Moth opens at the intercultural centre at 4pm (€10). In the garden, free of charge, Portugal’s NECRø play industrial and darkwave at 5pm and Greece’s Eddie Dark brings neon-noir synthwave at 6pm. The headline act is IAMX, the project of British musician Chris Corner, at the Teatro José Lúcio da Silva at 9pm for €30. After that, back in the garden and free again, come Greek duo Selofan at 11pm and The Chameleons at midnight — the Manchester post-punk band who invented a good deal of what the rest of the bill is doing. The Paddock closes the night at 1.30am with Sweden’s Aux Animaux (€12.50).
Saturday
The final day opens with Australian artist Penelope Trappes at the intercultural centre at 4pm. From 5pm the garden is free again: France’s Madmoizel, Spain’s SDH at 6pm, Germany’s Die Anstalt at 10pm and, at 11pm, local heroes Eden Synthetic Corps, from Leiria itself, playing electro-industrial with metal edges. France’s Moaan Exis close the garden at midnight and the whole thing ends at the Paddock with Brazil’s Daniel Knutz.
Thursday had already brought Italy’s Lili Refrain and Jolanda Moletta, plus Moonspell, making their first appearance at the festival. The full line-up with times and venues is on the official Extramuralhas 2026 page, and this year’s edition carries an openly humanitarian slogan.
One practical note if you are travelling. The free concerts happen in a public garden in the city centre, which makes Leiria a genuinely cheap weekend even without a ticket. If you were looking for something beyond the big summer festival circuit — Vilar de Mouros also wraps up this Saturday, up in Caminha — this is the other end of the country and the other end of the sonic spectrum.
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