As the protesters marched through Central Barcelona on Sunday, they shouted at the tourists who “Go Home!” Was doing the film for

The couple sitting in the street café sprayed with a water pistol and a luxury cloth shop was pasted with a sticker, which was declared tourists, who would uninterrupted themselves.

Tourism is extremely important for Spain and is a top destination for Barcelona visitors. But the crowd is growing so fast that many locals complain that they are being thrown out of their cities.

Here in popular places in southern Europe, residents are pushing back.

“We can’t live in this city. BNBS has rent super high as well as exits that come here for the weather and live,” Marina explained, holding her own banner as a crowd.

It declared “your airbnb used to be my home”.

Other signs asked for a ban on huge cruise ships, who do the dock here, announcing that the over-tourism is “murdered” the city.

Marina said, “Our goal is not to stop tourism, because it is also good, but it is to be kept at a normal rate.”

The route of the protesters, one of the biggest attractions in Barcelona, ​​was injured by the Vishal Sagarda Familia Church designed by Catalan Architect, Gowdy.

A combination of stunning architecture, sea and sun attracted more than 15 million visitors in the city about ten times more of the local population last year. No wonder it is feeling stress.

“We are not against individual tourists, it’s about how we are managing it,” said a young maritime biologist Elena.

“Young people cannot even do common things like living here or coffee which are really expensive for our salary.”

It is not just youth who are struggling.

At the age of 80, Payi Viu is extracted from his home in a popular neighborhood, almost a decade. She thinks that the owner wanted to earn more rent than pensioners payments.

Payi is now in a hostel, and is looking for far more suitable, but prices have increased by about 70% as it had last rented.

“I am not getting anything – and there is no support. I think I have no protection and it’s upset,” she says, bending and bending on a stick. “Now only tourists are flats, but we residents need somewhere to live!”

In some areas of the city, almost all the local people such as Peppi have already been excluded.

But in a narrow, paved road of Gothic quarters, tourist hearts of Barcelona, ​​Zone Alverez, is fighting his family to hold a flat for 25 years, and he can tolerate at a price.

His landlord has terminated the contract, but the zone refused to leave.

Most of the apartments of his building have already been divided into single rooms to rent more.

The zone’s small onset, with tile floors and a roof that looks towards the cathedral, remains anything intact.

“It’s not just about money, it is the principle,” he explains, the cat said that it is curved through the potted plants. “This is Central Barcelona and any of us residents have been released. It should not be so.”

“Housing should not be a big business. Yes, it is his property, but it is my home.”

Under pressure from protests, officials in Barcelona have already taken a radical step to declare a complete ban on short -term fare to tourists since 2028.

10,000 zamindars will lose their tourist housing license.

But Jesus Pereda, who owns two popular tourist flats, who is not away from Sagarda Familia, think that this is a wrong response.

He said, “He stopped giving new licenses 10 years ago, but the fares have still increased. So how are we guilty? We are just an easy enemy,” he says insisting.

Managing flats is his job, which provides an income for himself and his wife. “Now we are worried.”

Jesus believes that it is a ‘nomadic’ activist, which is pushing rather than tourists in Europe. “They earn and pay more. You can’t stop it.”

He argues that tourist flats such as their help, crowds, and cash, spread to other areas of the city. Without tourism, he believes that Barcelona will have a “existence crisis” – it represents up to 15% of Spain’s GDP (GDP).

If he loses his tourist license, Jesus will not take local tenants in any case: A price-cap means that long-term fares are barely beneficial, so he is planning to sell both flats.

Protest in Barcelona “You are All Guiris!” – Local slang for foreigners – and a burst of crackers. The red smoke was in front of the lines of police officers, blocking all the routes Sagarda Familia.

A while ago, the mob targeted a busy hotel, with a flare in the lobby. Tourists including children were clearly shaken.

There were similar protests in Spain elsewhere and there were more crowds in Portugal and Italy: not vast, but loudly and urged.

Concerns are the same and there is no consensus on how to deal with it. But Spain is expecting more tourists in this summer than before.

Esperanza Escribano and Brono Boelpaep Additional Reporting