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

Farmers in Spain will block major roads in Valencia, Málaga, Seville, Castellón and numerous other cities around the country for their fourth day of protests. This is what to expect on Friday February 9th on Spanish roads.

Published: 9 February 2024 09:58 CET
MAP: Where are farmers blocking roads in Spain on Friday?
Spanish farmers drive their tractors during a protest in demand of fair conditions for the agricultural sector, in Burgos, northern Spain, on February 6, 2024. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)

The fourth day of farming protests has kicked off in Spain, with some of the country’s major agricultural associations joining the movement again on Friday.

After a day in which protesters converged on Barcelona, they were out again on Thursday with several columns of slow-moving tractors snarling traffic on roads in the eastern Valencia region, Asturias in the north and the central region of Castilla-La Mancha, and several other regions.

Some protests have led to scuffles with Spanish police when they attempted to remove the roadblocks.

According to Spain’s interior ministry, 19 people have been arrested since the start of the protests. 

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In Ciudad Real, local media said hundreds of protesters dumped 25,000 litres of French wine into the street in front of the local water authority in protest at the central government’s policies on water.

Angry farmers have been protesting across Europe over rising costs, high fuel prices, bureaucracy and the environmental requirements in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its forthcoming “Green Deal”.

In response to the protest, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has promised to simplify the rules for implementing the CAP, as well as changing the laws so farmers don’t have to sell their products at a loss.

The following map gives you a better idea of the farmers’ roadblocks taking place across Spain on Friday February 9th:

So far, at 10am on Friday February 9th, farmers’ protests are taking place or scheduled to happen throughout the day in the following places:

  • Seville: blockade in both directions on the A-92 around Osuna
  • La Rioja: farmers blocking the N-232 in both directions around la Aldeanueva del Ebro
  • Badajoz: numerous blockades on the A-5, N-523, EX-103, N-430 and the N-435
  • Teruel: blockade on the N-420, the N-232
  • Cáceres. blockade on the EX-109 around Moraleja
  • Toledo: blockade on the N-301
  • Castellón: farmers in Corral de Almaguer are completely blocking the N-340
  • Valencia: two tractoradas on the V-31 around Albal and on the CV-374 around Ventas del Poyo
  • Huesca: tractors are blocking the N-330 around Almudevar and the N-240 around Sietamo
  • Zaragoza: at least 4 blockades on the N-330, the A-2, the N-122 and the N-232
  • Cuenca: A-3 is completely blocked around Castillo de Garcimuñoz 
  • Málaga: the A-7278 is blocked in both directions around Teba
  • Albacete. The N-430 is blocked around Villarrobledo
  • Navarre: Tractors are blocking the N-121 around Valtierra

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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TOURISM

‘It’s become unliveable’: Spain’s Málaga plans protests against mass tourism

After recent protests in the Canaries and seemingly growing anti-tourism sentiment across Spain, locals in the Costa del Sol city of Málaga are also planning demonstrations in June against the 'touristification' of their city.

Published: 2 May 2024 11:20 CEST
'It's become unliveable': Spain's Málaga plans protests against mass tourism

Locals in Málaga are set to take to the streets in protest against mass-tourism in June, demanding an end to the ‘touristification’ of their city.

This comes after large protests in the Canary Islands in recent weeks and growing anti-tourist sentiment around the country.

Tension among locals in places such as Barcelona, Valencia, the Balearic and Canary Islands, as well as Málaga, stems from frustration with the mass tourism model and its impact on their cities.

READ ALSO: Why Spain is a cheap mass tourism destination

Often, it is also about the post-pandemic influx of remote workers and digital nomads from abroad, many of whom come to Spain to enjoy a (relatively speaking) cheaper cost of living with high foreign wages and purchasing power than many local Spaniards struggle to compete with.

READ ALSO: Mass protests in Spain’s Canary Islands decry overtourism

In this sense, much of the building anti-mass tourism sentiment brewing in Spain is bundled up in a more general (and at times somewhat confused or misplaced) anti-foreigner feeling that views outsiders, whether it be traditional tourists or digital nomads, as exploiting Spain and the expense of Spaniards.

In cities such as Málaga, locals are being priced out of their own neighbourhoods as more and more properties are turned into short-term tourist rentals owned by landlords (many of them Spaniards or commercial multi-property owners) wanting to cash in.

A growing number of Malagueños have had enough and will take to the streets on June 29th under the slogan ‘for decent housing and against the processes of touristification and precariousness of life’.

The event’s aim is to protest the tourist model in the city: ‘Málaga has become an unliveable city for those of us who live there. It is over! For a Málaga to live in and not to survive’ are among the catchphrases expected to be used at the demonstration.

Organised by the Málaga Tenants Union, the protest will challenge the ‘exploitation of housing, work and life’ in the Andalusian city.

Locals would say this has been a long time coming. In many ways, Málaga has become a victim of its own success, particularly after it was voted as the best city for foreign residents in the InterNations Expat City Ranking 2023. In the post-pandemic period, scores of foreigners have moved to the city.

READ ALSO:  Why Spain’s Málaga is becoming a victim of its own success

So much so that eight out of 10 new residents moving to Málaga are currently foreigners, according to recent data from Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE). Stats show that in 2022 Málaga welcomed a total of 56,242 inhabitants, of which 44,656 were foreigners and 11,586 were Spanish nationals.

In recent months the city has become inundated with anti-tourist stickers.

“This used to be my home” (antes esta era mi casa) , “go f*cking home” (a tu puta casa), “stinking of tourist” (apestando a turista), “this used to be the city centre” (antes esto era el centro) and “Your dead loved ones, mayor” (Alcalde tus muertos) are some of the hostile messages recently adorning walls and doors in Málaga.

READ ALSO: ‘Get the f*ck out of here’: Spain’s Málaga plastered with anti-tourism stickers

The growing foreign population, combined with the pre-existing mass tourist model, has inflated the local property market. Rental prices have increased by 16.5 percent compared since the end of 2022 and have now reached an average of €15.5/m2, stats from property portal Idealista show, while the cost to buy a home in Málaga has increased by 11 percent to an average of €3,049/m2, reaching a new historic high.

According to a study by HelloSafe, Málaga is the second most expensive province in the country when compared to the average salary, just behind Barcelona. It estimates that 81 percent of the average salary in Málaga is used on living and rent.

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