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Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism.

Demonstrators marching through areas popular with tourists on Saturday chanted “tourists go home” and squirted them with water pistols, while others carried signs with slogans including “Barcelona is not for sale.”

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the city in the latest demonstration against mass tourism in Spain, which has seen similar actions in the Canary Islands and Mallorca recently, decrying the impact on living costs and quality of life for local people.

The demonstration was organised by a group of more than 100 local organizations, led by the Assemblea de Barris pel Decreixement Turístic (Neighborhood Assembly for Tourism Degrowth).

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[-] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You mean to tell me you DON'T want people to visit your beautiful city? Then why did you make it so beautiful in the first place? Attracting tourists is an inevitable side effect of that. Just treat them nicely, and they'll treat you back nicely.

Though now I wanna visit Barcelona just to be sprayed with a water gun, it sounds so fun. Just please ask people for consent if you wanna do that.

[-] claudiop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Most "beautiful" bits people visit are at least a century old, plenty of them like 5+ centuries old. I don't think that people back then were considering tourists.

I'm either case, weather and natural features play a big role for southern Europe. We didn't decide to have these.

Also, IIRC, we also didn't ask half of Europe to unbuild itself in this last century. WW2, cities for cars and fucking up nature were not decisions we had a say on.

It is silly AF to have a German/Brit/French/American/Chinese fuck their country up trough some industrialization and pro-productivity-but-anti-quality-of-life policies, get rich doing it and then proceed to go to a country that has opted to stay out if it to enjoy what they could have at home but decided not to.

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[-] Sju@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

Barcelona is Morocco so nobody cares

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Wat? Does you geography?

Barcelona is in Catalonia its the part of Spain directly across the Pyrenees from Perpignan.

Are you thinking of Cadiz? (You're still wrong) Or Tangier? Marrakech? Fez? Casablanca?

And why do you think nobody cares about Morocco?

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[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The lady in the thumbnail looks like Sarah Connor.

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