Spain's mass tourism in candidates' crosshairs in election year

FILE PHOTO: Tourists and locals walk at at Placa de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain April 6, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Scrawled across Barcelona's opera house, along the city's renowned La Rambla boulevard, is expletive-laden graffiti urging tourists to "go home".

In another district, the messaging is more emphatic still: "Tourism kills neighbourhoods".