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Thousands of flag-waving demonstrators hit the streets across Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday to demand restrictions to the mass tourism they say is overwhelming their Atlantic archipelago. Rallying under the slogan “The Canary Islands have a limit”, demonstrators began marching at midday in tourist hotspots across all of the archipelago’s seven main islands. Protesters gathered […]
Rallying under the slogan “The Canary Islands have a limit”, demonstrators began marching at midday in tourist hotspots across all of the archipelago’s seven main islands. Protesters gathered outside a convention centre in Maspalomas on the island of Gran Canaria, the only water park on the island of Fuerteventura, and the nightlife district in Playa […]
2024 has been the year when Spaniards have spoken out against their mass tourism model and the impact it’s having on their lives, in particular how it’s contributing to the country’s housing crisis. The country’s overtourism problems are not actually new, but a surge in visitors since the end of the pandemic, the acute proliferation […]
Spain and Italy’s governments are at loggerheads after EU leaders on Thursday called for urgent new legislation to increase and speed up migrant returns, following a Brussels summit that crystallised a rightward shift in the bloc’s rhetoric. At a press conference after the European Council meeting, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said schemes such as […]
A 26-year-old British man died after falling from Spain’s tallest bridge while attempting to climb it to make content for social media on Sunday morning. The unidentified man was with another British man, 24, when he fell from the Castilla-La Mancha bridge in Talavera de la Reina, a city about 70 miles southwest of Madrid, […]
The unidentified man was with another Briton, aged 24, when he plunged to his death on Sunday morning from the cable-stayed bridge in Talavera de la Reina, 110 kilometres (70 miles) southwest of Madrid, the city council said. Advertisement “As far as we have been able to learn, they had come to Talavera to climb […]