Plaça de George Orwell is a tight triangular space in the centre of the Gothic Quarter:
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It’s best if you serendipitously stumble upon it while meandering through the neighbourhood, just about the time you need a coffee or claras (look it up). Then you can negotiate for a view seat to watch the daily life of a quarter still not entirely overtaken by AirBnB.
This is what you may see:
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Actually, you’ll see the children’s play areas everywhere throughout the city:
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Typically with real live children playing in them.
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The George Orwell part? He fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and from his time there wrote Homage to Catalonia. Nigel Richardson, for Britain’s Telegraph, revisited the streets the author would have trodden.
As for Orwell, the only reference is a small square named after him, which in any case is known locally by another name, “Plaça del Tripi”, or “Acid Square”: the Plaça de George Orwell, complete with Big Brother-ish surveillance cameras, is where Barcelona’s youth kick back on illicit substances.
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