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Barcelona residents are so fed up with tourism they’re squirting visitors with water guns as they try to enjoy their meals
In a protest blending whimsy and frustration, thousands of Barcelona residents turned against mass tourism on Saturday. They were armed with an unlikely weapon: the water pistol. The Las Ramblas ...
Barcelona finally turned on its crowds of tourists. Now the city faces a major problem
Summer 2024 saw angry locals attack tourists with toy water pistols to protest about being squeezed out of their own city. Now the city is concerned it has a reputation for hostility to the visitors ...
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Barcelona finally turned on its crowds of tourists. Now the city faces a major problem
It was the water pistol shot that echoed around the world. In the summer of 2024, after years of enduring the pressures of overtourism, locals in Barcelona ramped up their protest, with thousands ...