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Tarragona, Catalonia · 116 mi / 187 km

La Gata Insubmisa is a non-profit social and cultural centre on Carrer d'August in central Tarragona that combines a vegan café, an alternative bookshop and lending library, and a cat café. The cat area is managed by the rescue association La Caseta dels Gats, and the cats living there have been rescued and are available for adoption, so visitors can get to know a cat and see how it behaves with people and other cats before applying. The café, GaTaverna Insubmisa, serves fully plant-based drinks and food, including homemade cakes, using local products. The bookshop focuses on feminist, LGBTIQ+, anti-speciesist and anti-racist titles, and books can also be borrowed. The centre hosts talks, workshops, reading circles, language exchanges, exhibitions and small concerts, most of them free, and describes itself as a safe space for everyone. It opens on weekday evenings and is closed at weekends.

• Adoptable cats

Orthez, Nouvelle Aquitaine · 127 mi / 205 km

Ronron et Gourmandises is a bar à chats, restaurant and tea room on Boulevard des Pommes in the centre of Orthez, in the Béarn, opposite the Saint-Pierre church. The cats in the dining room are entrusted by the associations Patounes de Chats and Animal'Âme and are all waiting for adoption, so visitors can meet them over a meal and ask about taking one home. At lunchtime the kitchen serves a daily combined plate that changes with the market, always with a vegetarian option, plus homemade desserts including the house El Gato. Until 6 pm it works as a salon de thé with cakes, tea, hot chocolate, coffee, juices and smoothies. The building also houses a gallery of local makers selling cat-themed crafts, loose tea and biscuits, rooms for wellbeing practitioners such as hypnotherapy and massage, and an organic plant-based hair salon.

• Adoptable cats

Bayonne, Nouvelle Aquitaine · 131 mi / 211 km

Café Moustache is a café à chats on Rue du 49ème Régiment d'Infanterie in the Poste quarter of Bayonne. It was opened in summer 2026 by Emmanuelle Daragnes, a former veterinary assistant, and works as a foster home: the cats living in the café, such as Mimi, Aya and Brooke, are looking for families and can be adopted by visitors who fall for one. Guests settle into a warm, cocooning room with a coffee, tea, latte, cappuccino, pastry, quiche, cheesecake or savoury tartine and wait for a cat to come over for attention. There is no entry fee, prices are modest, and the room is arranged so the cats can come and go safely. The café suits a sweet break, a quiet read or simply time with the cats, and it is open from Tuesday to Saturday.

• Adoptable cats

Terrassa, Catalonia · 149 mi / 240 km

Pingu Cat Cafè is a cat café on Carretera de Montcada in Terrassa, about nine minutes on foot from Terrassa Rambla station on the FGC S1 line from Plaça de Catalunya. Opened in July 2022, it acts as a foster home for cats and kittens from several animal associations: they live in the café until a family adopts them, and then new cats arrive. The cats have a quiet room they can retreat to when they want a break from visitors. There is no entry fee, but each visitor orders at least one drink or item. The menu leans Japanese, with dorayaki, taiyaki and mochi alongside café drinks, plus vegan toasties and vegan chocolate spread. Reserving a table is recommended. The team takes the café's merchandise to manga and comic conventions around Catalonia and sometimes closes on those weekends, so it is worth checking Instagram before travelling.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking recommended

Alcala De Henares, Madrid · 152 mi / 244 km

Polineko is a neko cafe and cat adoption centre in Alcalá de Henares, east of Madrid, now on Calle de Zaragoza after moving from its earlier premises on Camino de la Esgaravita. It is run by A.P.A. Neko Madrid, a volunteer animal welfare association that rescues abandoned and mistreated cats, places them in foster homes for veterinary care and then brings them to the cafe to meet potential adopters. Around 18 cats live in the lounge, each with its own name and story. Visitors book a session online and pay a donation that includes a drink, such as organic coffee or herbal tea, and can stay with the cats in the afternoon. Adoption follows the association's own process, which requires netting on windows and balconies. Polineko also sells merchandise and holds workshops and small events, such as craft sessions with the cats around.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking required

Valencia · 152 mi / 245 km

La Fábrica de Huellas is a cafe on Calle del Túria in Extramurs, a short walk west of Valencia's old town, run as a project of the Fundación ACAVALL animal welfare foundation. It has two spaces: a dog-friendly cafe where people can sit with their own dogs without booking, and La Casa de los Gatos, a cat cafe room that is home to around ten adult rescue cats waiting for adoption. Entry to the cat room is a timed session of an hour and a quarter with one drink included, and booking online is strongly advised, since walk-ins can only stay until the next reserved slot. Cakes, smoothies and frappés are served. Visitors may stroke and play with the cats when the cats choose, but picking them up is not allowed. Children under 12 must come with an adult. The cafe closes for the month of August.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking recommended