Málaga tourism: 'People feel the city is collapsing'

Protesting locals say hordes of tourists make the city feel like a "theme park".

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It’s late morning and it's still a peaceful spot at this time of day - jacaranda trees fill the square, an obelisk monument sits at its centre and on the far side is the house where Pablo Picasso was born.

But it’s the city’s tourists, many of whom are already gathering in the host of nearby cafés, who concern Kike.

“The situation is so saturated that Málaga has really reached a turning point at which people feel that the city is collapsing,” he says.

“It’s the same feeling you have when you enter a theme park,” he adds. “There is a stream of people that are consuming the city and not really inhabiting it.”

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