Barcelona has one thing figured out: the playground is right next to the bar. These are small, car-free squares where you can grab a drink while the kids run free.
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Plaça del Sol
Clamber the central climbing frame and run the open paving while parents grab a terrace table for tapas.
Plaça de Vicenç Martorell
Kids run between climbing frames and slides in a fence-free play area while parents take a coffee at the arcade terraces, two minutes from the Rambla.
Plaça del Diamant
A small playground sits beside the bronze 'La Colometa' statue, with car-free space to run and shaded café terraces around the edges.
Plaça de la Revolució de Setembre de 1868
A Gràcia square with a central play area, a hopscotch mosaic in the paving, and terraces around the edge.
Plaça de la Concòrdia
The car-free former village square of Les Corts, with cafe terraces, a Modernista mansion, and open paving that fills with children by mid-afternoon.
Plaça de Sant Miquel
A calm Gothic Quarter square behind City Hall with in-ground trampolines and Antoni Llena's towering wire-mesh tribute to the castellers.
Plaça d'Osca
A car-free, tree-shaded square lined with a dozen bar terraces and a small play area, busiest for the Sunday vermut.
Plaça de la Virreina
Run the calm paved square in front of the Sant Joan church, with cafe terraces and a 1949 bronze fountain at its center.
Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia
The heart of Gràcia: a pedestrian square under the clock tower, ringed by cafe terraces
Plaça de Rovira i Trias
Climb onto the bench beside the life-size bronze of architect Rovira i Trias, with a relief of his lost Eixample plan set into the pavement.
Plaça de George Orwell
Let toddlers loose in the small fenced playground while you grab a terrace table under the surrealist 'Tripi' sculpture.