Barcelona protesters tell tourists to
go home
Graham Keeley, Madrid
May 12 2017, 5:00pm,
The Times
Gaudí’s Park Güell was the latest Barcelona attraction for
anti-tourist activists to vent their anger
Visitors to Park Güell have probably found the graffitied
message at its entrance less than welcoming: “Why call it tourist season if we
can’t shoot them?”
If the meaning was in any doubt, the daubing included a
shaded figure with a cross wire pointed at its head.
At the park designed by Antoni Gaudí, one of Barcelona’s
most popular attractions, another graffitied message read: “Tourismus Macht
Frei. Stop Destroying Our Lives!”
The spelling might have been slightly confused but the
message at Park Güell was not: visitors to Spain’s second city are increasingly
being targeted by radical activists amid a rising tide of “turismophobia” — or
anti-tourist anger.
Residents are angry about the drunken antics of some foreign
visitors
Last week about 300 members of a group called Poblenou Stand
Up protested outside two new hotels…
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