Mallorca graffiti fury: ‘Tourists go home. Refugees welcome’

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“Tourists go home. Refugees welcome” is just one of the slogans to have appeared this week daubed on the walls of the historic centre of Palma, the capital of Mallorca, The Local.es online newspaper can report.

“Stop Guiris” and “Tourism is destroying our city” are two of the others in a recent spate of graffiti that is angering visitors and local residents alike.

The anti-tourism phrases suggest a growing malaise at the number of holidaymakers crowding into Palma de Mallorca as residents complain that tourism is destroying local neighbourhoods.

Residents of La Seu, the historic old quarter of narrow cobbled streets around the city’s Gothic cathedral, bemoan the fact that on top of having to suffer inundations of tourists, they now also have their neighbourhood blighted by graffiti.

“Not only have we do deal with the burden of tourist saturation which is bringing the neighbourhood to near collapse, but we are now held to be responsible for removing the anti-tourist slogans from our walls,” said a written complaint from the residents association to City Hall.

“The council has ignored the problem, claiming that residents should be responsible for cleaning and repainting walls. They will only deal with graffiti if it is on council property,” it continued.

Read more here: http://www.thelocal.es/20160412/tourists-go-home-refugees-welcome-graffiti-appears-in-mallorca

Source: www.thelocal.es

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