Protesters and residents retreated in Barcelona

As the protesters leave on Sunday with Central Barcelona, ​​”Go home!” They shouted them to tourists who moved them.

Bemoted couples sitting in the cafes on the street were squeezed with water pistols and a luxury dress shop, stuck with labels that announce tourists that connect themselves in reluctance.

Tourism is very important for Spain and Barcelona is the best place for visitors. However, the crowd is so fast that many local residents complain that they squeeze from their cities.

Residents of popular spots are pushed back here and in Southern Europe.

“We can’t live in this city. The rentals are high here for BNBs and the weather and the exerts coming here are high,” Marina gathered the crowd of her banner.

Announced the “used AirbnB for my house.”

Other signs called for a ban on giant cruise ships here, by declaring that a tourism is “killing”.

“Our goal is not to stop tourism, because this is good, but to be a normal proportion,” he said.

Familia Church, Gaudi, a Sagrada, made by the route of the protesters to one of Barcelona, ​​the Catalan architect.

The stunning architecture, the unification of the sea and the Sun, last year, the city drew more than 15 million visitors to the city, almost ten times the local population. Not surprisingly, it feels tension.

“We are not against individual tourists,” Elena, the young marine biologist said, “Elena.

“Young people are really expensive for all our salaries, such as living here or even norms.”

This is not the young man who just struggles.

At the age of 80, Pepi VIU, almost one-year home, was demolished in a popular neighborhood. He thinks the owner wants to rent more than retiring.

Pepi is now in a dormitory and a more suitable place, but since the last lease has increased by about 70%.

“I can’t find anything – and no support. I feel that I don’t have to protect myself and are not sad,” says, “says, fida and lean on a stick. “Now there are only tourist apartments, but we need a place to live inhabitants!”

In some areas of the city, almost all local residents like Pepi have already pushed.

However, Joan Alvarez, who is in the heart of the Gothic Quarter, Barcelona’s tourist in the heart of the tourist, is leased by his family for 25 years and can pay.

The host stopped the contract, but Joan refuses to leave.

Most of the apartments in the building are divided into single rooms to bring more rents.

Joan’s small oasis, a terrace looking at the floor floors and cathedral, is still one of the inviolates.

“It’s not just about money, the principle of the principle,” he explains that the cats go round. “This is a central barcelona and any of us remained. This should not be.”

“The apartment should not be a big deal. Yes, it is his property, but my house is.”

Under the pressure from the protests, the government in Barcelona, ​​the government has taken a radical step to announce a short-term lease to tourists in 2028.

10,000 homeowners will lose their tourist housing licenses.

Jesus Pereda, who is a healthy health and two famous tourist housing in Sagrada, thinks that there is an incorrect answer.

“10 years ago they stopped providing new licenses, but the rents still rose. So how do we blame? We are just an easy enemy.”

Managing apartments is its work, provides income for himself and his wife. “We now have concerns.”

Jesus believes that this is the ‘nomadic’ employees who are moving from other parts of Europe, not a tourist, but also from elsewhere. “They win and pay more. You can’t stop it.”

He claims that the crowd and money of tourists as the upbringing of the tourist, as the spread of other areas of the city. Barselona believes that Barcelona will be “existential crisis” without tourism – a total of 15% of the total Spanish GDP (GDP).

If the tourist loses licenses, Jesus will not take local tenants: the price-long-term lease plans to sell both apartments.

Protest in Barcelona “You are all Quiriss!” Culminated in drivers – local jargon for foreigners – and the explosion of the firing room. Red smoke in front of the rows of police officers blocked all the routes in Sagrada.

Before a while, the crowd hit the crowd, hitting a flame on the lobby. Tourists, including children, openly shaken.

In other parts of Spain, there were similar protests and more crowds in Portugal and Italy: not large, but not high and insistent.

Concerns are the same and there is no consensus to solve it. But Spain is waiting for more tourists this summer this summer.

Additional Report by Esperanza Escribano and Bruno Boelpaep