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CNN —Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism. Demonstrators marching through areas popular with tourists on Saturday chanted “tourists go home” and squirted them with water pistols, while others carried signs with slogans including “Barcelona is not for sale.”According to Barcelona's City Council, some 2,800 people demonstrated against mass tourism in the center of Barcelona on Saturday. Josep Lago/AFP/Getty ImagesAccording to official figures, almost 26 million visitors made an overnight stay in the Barcelona region in 2023, spending €12.75 billion ($13.8 billion). Protesters squirt water pistols during Saturday's protest. In April, locals in the Canary Islands mobilized to protest against excessive tourism, blaming visitors for pricing them out of their homes and causing environmental damage.
Persons: Lorena Sopêna, de, Josep Lago, Decreixement Turístic, Jaume Collboni, Collboni, Louis, Antoni Gaudí’s Organizations: CNN, Protesters, “ Barcelona, Barcelona's City Council, Europa Press, Assembly, Tourism Degrowth, Louis Vuitton, Antoni Gaudí’s Parc, Canary Locations: Barcelona, Spain, Canary, Mallorca, AFP, Antoni Gaudí’s Parc Güell
CNN —The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona will finally be finished in 2026, more than 140 years after construction started, officials have confirmed. “The Chapel of the Assumption is expected to be finished in 2025 and the tower of Jesus Christ, in 2026,” the Sagrada Familia said in a statement announcing the publication of its 2023 annual report. When complete, the Sagrada Familia will become the world’s tallest church, overtaking Ulm Minster in Germany. The Sagrada Familia pictured in 1940 Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesWhen Gaudí died in 1926, only an estimated 10%-15% of the project had been built, including one transept, a crypt and some of the apse wall. The construction of the church was carried out illegally for 137 years, until 2019, when a building permit was finally issued by Barcelona’s city council.
Persons: Jesus Christ, Christophe Simon, Antoni Gaudí, Virgin Mary, Jesus, Gaudí, Pope Benedict XVI Organizations: CNN, Assumption, Getty, Ulm Minster, Construction, Spanish, UNESCO, Authorities Locations: Barcelona, AFP, Ulm, Germany, Catalan, Barcelona’s
CNN —After a wait of more than 140 years, five central towers of Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia basilica are at last finished. On Wednesday, the final sculptural piece was placed on the tower of Matthew the Evangelist, according to a news release from the Basílica de la Sagrada Família. From Basílica de la Sagrada Família/Facebook“The four towers of the Evangelists are finished! An inauguration mass will be held at the cathedral on November 12, when the four evangelist towers will be illuminated. Josep Lago/AFP/Getty ImagesThe four evangelist towers stand at 135 meters tall (around 443 feet).
Persons: Antoni Gaudí, Virgin Mary, Jesus, Matthew the, John the, we’ll, Luke, Josep Lago, Jesus Christ, Gaudí, Pope Benedict XVI Organizations: CNN, Facebook, Getty, Spanish, UNESCO, Authorities, Ulm Minster Locations: Catalan, AFP, Barcelona’s, Ulm, Germany
Concrete Daisies? There’s a Fine for That.
  + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Nicholas Casey | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Flowerlike concrete appendages rose to the sun, bejeweled with glass, marbles and shards of old pots. Broken tiles were cemented into intricate mosaics called trencadís — the stuff Antoni Gaudí once made famous in Barcelona. But unlike Gaudí, the creator of this construction had no training in architecture, art or engineering. The art world has long kept a place at the table for so-called “outsider art.” Works by painters with no formal training get special auctions at Christie’s. New York has had an art fair devoted to outsider artists since the 1990s, which welcomes art by children, prisoners and a wide variety of others.
Persons: Jo Farb Hernández, Antoni Gaudí, , Hernández Locations: Spain’s, France, Barcelona, . New York
The trio were in Barcelona to attend a concert by pal Bruce Springsteen at Barcelona's Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium on Friday night. Obama, Spielberg and Springsteen dined at the Amar restaurant in the Palace Hotel on Thursday. Staff member Pol Perello uploaded a photo of them posing with wait staff and chefs to Instagram with the comment "the pleasure this job brings you!." Spanish news outlets showed the former president and first lady walking hand in hand through central Barcelona surrounded by a large group of security guards. Obama and Springsteen first met on the presidential campaign trail in 2008.
A venit apoi rândul monumentelor din America să intre în întuneric, de la Obeliscul din centrul Buenos Aires la Museu do Amanha (Muzeul de Mâine) din Rio de Janeiro sau zgârie-norul BBVA din Mexico City. Această mobilizare anuală pentru Ora Pământului, iniţiativă demarată de World Wide Fund (WWF), are drept obiectiv mobilizarea în vederea demarării unor iniţiative în domeniul schimbărilor climatice şi al protecţiei mediului. Anul acesta, organizatorii au dorit să scoată în evidenţă legătura dintre distrugerea naturii şi incidenţa în creştere a cazurilor de COVID-19. „Fie că este vorba despre declinul polenizatorilor, scăderea numărului de peşti din oceane şi râuri, dispariţia pădurilor sau pierderi generale din domeniul biodiversităţii, indiciile potrivit cărora natura este în pericol se înmulţesc”, a spus Marco Lambertini, directorul general WWF, organizaţie care a demarat Earth Hour în anul 2007. „Protejarea naturii este responsabilitatea noastră morală, iar prejudiciile ne cresc totodată vulnerabilitatea în faţa pandemiei, accelerează schimbările climatice şi ne pun în pericol siguranţa alimentară„, a mai spus el.
Persons: Antoni Gaudi, Marco Organizations: Evenimentul, World Wide Fund, WWF Locations: Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Roma, Piaţa, Moscova, Poarta Brandenburg, Berlin, Palatul Westminster, Londra, Paris, Barcelona, Spaniei, Vienna, America, Buenos Aires, do, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City
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