Protesters and residents encourage tourism in Barcelona

Protests went through the central Barcelona on Sunday, they shouted to tourists shooting “go home”.

The couple sitting in street cafes were swinded with water guns and a luxury clothing store stuck with stickers.

Tourism is very important for Spain and Barcelona is the top destination for visitors. But the crowd is growing so fast that many of its locals are complaining that they are squeezing out of their cities.

Here and in the popular places in southern Europe, the neighbors are going back.

“We are unable to live in this city. The rents are very high as BNBS, as well as those who come here, as the weather, explained, as the crowd gathered.

He declared “your Airbnb house”.

Other signs were called the ban on the giants of the pier’s ships.

“Our goal is not to stop tourism, too, but to have it normally,” Marina said.

The trajectory of the protesters is one of the greatest attractions in Barcelona, ​​the Tower of the Sagrada Family Church designed by the Catalan architect Gaudi.

The combination of amazing architecture, the sea and the sun drawn more than 15 million visitors last year, almost ten inhabitants. It’s not surprising that feeling is feeling feeling.

“We are not against individual tourists, who we are managing this,” Elena said, a young sea biologist.

“Young people cannot live here or our salaries are normal things like a very expensive coffee.”

Not only the young people who are struggling.

In 80 years, Pepi Viu has evicted from the house of a decade, in a well-known neighborhood. The owner thinks he wants to earn more income than the pensioner could pay.

Pepi is now in a shelter, and somewhere is looking more, but the prices lasted almost 70% last last time.

“I can’t find anything, and there’s no help. I feel that I don’t feel free and get angry,” he said, weak and bent. “Now there are only tourist weights, but we need to live somewhere from the neighbors!”

In some countries, almost all of its native like Pepi has already been thrown away.

In a narrow Gothic street, in the tourist heart of Barcelona, ​​Joan Alvarez is holding his family for his family for 25 years and the price he can pay.

His owner has finished the contract, but Joan refused.

Most apartments in his building have been distributed in a single room to bring more rentals.

The small oasis of John, roofed floors and a terrace facing the cathedral is one of the few in the whole.

“It’s not just money, it’s the principle,” he explained, while cats talking through plant plants. “This is the central Barcelona and almost no residents left. It should not be that way.”

“Housing shouldn’t have a big business. Yes, this is his property, but it’s my home.”

Under pressure of protests, the authorities of Barcelona have already taken the radical step to the short-term rental of 2028 tourists.

10,000 landlords will lose tourist housing licenses.

But Jesus pereda has two well-known tourist weights that are not very far from the Sagrada family, believes that this is the wrong answer.

“10 years ago they stopped giving new permissions, but the rent has still risen. So how do we blame? We have an easy enemy,” he stressed.

Managing homes is his work, offering his wife and his wife’s income. “Now we have anxiety.”

Jesus believes that the employees moving elsewhere in Europe “nomads”, rather than tourists. “They pay and pay more. You can’t stop that.”

It has argued that tourist weights like his support spread the crowd and spread to other areas of the city. Without tourism, Barcelona believes that he would have “existential crisis” – represents 15% (GDP) in the Spanish household.

If he loses his tourist license, it will not take local tenants in any way: A price cap means long-term rental rental, it intends to sell weights.

Barcelona protest “You are all guiris!” – Local Local Local for Foreigners – and a firecracker. The red smoke came into the rows of cops that block all the routes of the Sagrada family.

A little before, the crowd gave him the busy hotel, making a shot from Lobby. Inner tourists, including children, were clearly shaken.

There were also many people in Spain and Portugal and Italy also protests: not so great, but loud and insistent.

They are the same concerns and there is no consensus on how to deal with. But Spain expects more tourists this summer.

Report in Esperanza Escribano and Bruno Boelpeep