From Lisbon to Barcelona to Mount Fuji, a look at the chaos of overtourism

Anti-tourist graffiti that reads ‘Tourist Go Home’ seen in Mallorca, which can also be found in many popular cities in Europe. — Photos: ANDREY RUDAKO/Bloomberg

The doorbell to Martinho de Almada Pimentel’s house in Sintra, Portugal is hard to find, and he likes it that way. It’s a long rope that, when pulled, rings a literal bell on the roof that lets him know someone is outside the mountainside mansion that his great-grandfather built in 1914 as a monument to privacy.

There’s precious little of that for Pimentel during this summer of overtourism.