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MAP: Where are farmers blocking roads in Spain on Thursday?

Thursday February 8th marks the third day of Spanish farmers' protests, with the main farming associations set to join the road blockades for the first time. Here's where to expect traffic holdups and roadblocks in Spain today.

MAP: Where are farmers blocking roads in Spain on Thursday?
Tractors are parked on the highway during a protest near Parets del Valles, around 20 km north of Barcelona, on February 7, 2024. (Photo by Pau Barrena / AFP)

UPDATE: Where are farmers blocking roads in Spain on Friday February 9th?

The third day of the farmers’ protest in Spain kicked off early on Thursday, and so far the so-called tractorada movement appears to have lost some steam with fewer major roads affected.

However, we’re still waiting to see the muscle exhibited by the top agricultural organisations Asaja, COAG and UPA, which so far haven’t taken part in the protests but will do from today. 

They are set to take to the streets this Thursday in Ciudad Real, Huesca, Ávila and Salamanca.

Barcelona was the focus of the second day of farmers protests as hundreds of tractors drove slowly into the Catalan capital from every corner of the region, blocking traffic and the main accesses into the city. 

On Thursday morning, they continued to gather in the city centre, blockading Barcelona’s Gran Vía and Diagonal avenues with their tractors. Nevertheless, the latest reports suggest they are now leaving. 

The following map gives you a better idea of the farmers’ roadblocks taking place across Spain on Thursday February 8th:

So far, at 10am on Thursday February 8th, the following farmers’ protests are taking place or scheduled to happen throughout the day:

  • Traffic holdups in Valencia and Castellón, the main blockades are causing five kilometres of  traffic jams on the A-7 around Loringilla (Valencia) and on the CV-15 around Vall d’Alba (Castellón). The A-3 around San Antonio is also blocked by tractors.
  • Seville farmers are blocking the A-92 in Paradas and the A-451 in El Saucejo on their third day of protests.
  • In Navarre farmers have cut off access to Pamplona on the A-12 near Villatuerta.
  • In Cuenca the A-3 has been blockaded by a tractorada around Minglanilla.
  • Access to Salamanca via all motorways is scheduled to be cut throughout the day.
  • In Jaén the A-41 has been blockaded in both directions around Huelma.
  • In Soria the N-234 and the N-122 are both inaccessible.
  • In Almería the A-7 motorway is blockaded around km 814.
  • In Albacete the A-31 is completely blocked in both directions.
  • In Cáceres (Extremadura) the EX-A1 is blocked in both directions.
  • In Zaragoza the A-2 motorway has been totally blocked around Alto de la Muela in both directions (Madrid and Barcelona). The A-68 around Mallen is also blockaded.
  • In Huesca the A-23 is currently no usable.
  • Ciudad Real police are recommending that nobody uses their vehicles as major blockades in the city and surrounding motorways are expected.
  • In Burgos, the AP-1 around Rubena has been blocked in both directions.

For live updates, this map by the DGT will also help. The icons showing people are where the protests are happening.

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Spanish farmers stage fresh protests in Madrid

Hundreds of farmers paraded through the Spanish capital on foot and by tractor on Sunday in the latest protest over the crisis facing the agricultural sector.

Spanish farmers stage fresh protests in Madrid

The farmers marched from the Ministry of Ecological Transition to the Ministry of Agriculture after the European Union proposed legislative changes to drastically ease the environmental rules of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Friday.

Rallied by their trade union, farmers carried banners proclaiming “We are not delinquents” to the sound of horns and whistles. One decorated his tractor with a mock guillotine.

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“It is as if they want to cut off our necks,” said Marcos Baldominos explaining his guillotine.

“We are being suffocated by European rules,” the farmer from Pozo de Guadalajara, 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Madrid, added.

Friday’s concessions in Brussels aimed to loosen compliance with some environment rules, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said. While the move was welcomed by Spain’s left-wing government, some environmental NGOs criticised the measures.

“We are faced with a pile of bureaucratic rules that make us feel more like we are at an office than on a farm,” the trade union behind Sunday’s march, Union de Uniones, said with reference to requirements “that many small and medium-sized farms” cannot “cope with”.

Sunday marked the fourth demonstration in Madrid since the start of the wider European farm protest movement in mid-January.

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