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Match Report: FC Barcelona v Manchester City: Maestro Messi shows the way (4–0)
Sports
FC Barcelona v Manchester City: Guardiola ready for 'the best'
Politics, Society
Judge prohibits Badalona City Hall from working on Spain’s National Day
Business
‘Brexit’ will "strengthen collaboration between London and Barcelona", Barcelona’s second Deputy Mayor says
Life & Style
Barcelona struggles to achieve balance between benefits of tourism and complaints about illegal apartments
Business
Barcelona could introduce a tourist tax from 2017
Visitors coming to Barcelona in 2017 may be levied with a tourist tax. This would be added to the fee Catalonia already applies to people staying in Catalan hotels, camping sites and tourist cottages. The Municipal Commission of Economy and Finance passed on Tuesday a proposal presented by liberal ‘Convergència i Unió’ (CiU) in which the political party asks the local government to consider the application of a tourist tax, fee or public levy. The aim is to balance the costs and benefits of receiving around 30 million visitors each year. The text approved also insists on the necessity of demanding from the Catalan Government the transfer of all the revenue collected from tourists visiting the city, and not just half of it.
Business
Barcelona is almost excellent –just a bit too crowded, say tourists
A new poll shows that tourists in the Catalan capital gave the city a score of 8.6 on a scale of 0 to 10. An almost excellent result, which is, however, overshadowed by concerns by those same visitors that the city attracts way too many people. In fact, 58% of those that took part in the poll consider Barcelona’s tourist spots overcrowded. On summer Sundays, up to 20,000 people arrive in Barcelona by cruise ship. The figure will peak on the 11th of September, when up to 28,100 people are expected to arrive by sea. The tourism poll was conducted in 2015 in different tourist areas, hotels and airports and ports of Barcelona. From those taking part, 47.5% were visiting the city for the first time, and 52.5% had been there before.
Life & Style
Barcelona cracks down on illegal subletting for tourists and closes 256 apartments
Culture
Barcelona to display Francoist sculptures on the street as part of a controversial exhibition
Society
Barcelona closes the Immigrant Detention Centre, but Spain immediately orders its reopening
Culture
Barcelona and Catalan literature, guests of honour at the 2016 Warsaw Book Fair
Life & Style
Girona celebrates ‘Temps de Flors’, Catalonia’s most important flower exhibition
Culture
Barcelona becomes a UNESCO City of Literature
Business