Understand
[edit]Toddler happiness is considered a public responsibility in Spain: in any public place people around you put every effort into making your toddler happy: whenever he looks boring or is crying, everyone makes their best to entertain or to calm him.
See
[edit]- Museum of Natural History in the Ciutadella Park (Barceloneta)
Buy
[edit]Brands
[edit]- Bobolino brand is good value-for-money garments for babies. Sold in Maremagnum and variety of other stores.
Stores
[edit]- La Pedrera (Casa Mila). At the exit from museum part (same floor as The Pedrera Apartment), La Pedrera hosts a small toys store. Mid-XX century-style metal toys (including musical boxes and whirligigs); fascinating books with pop-up pages (especially check Alice in Wonderland and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, €30 each). Check also several books How to Speak to Children About Art from several galleries (Tate Gallery, Metropolitan Museum). To get to the shop, you need to buy a standard ticket to La Pedrera.
- There is a underground mall somewhere between Placa del Pi and Born area, with a good selection of child shops.