As expected, the Turó de la Rovira has once again become one of the enclaves of Barcelona preferred by hundreds of young people, among them a multitude of tourists attracted by the recommendations of tourist guides that praise those known as carmel bunkers -although they really are anti-aircraft batteries of the Civil War of high historical value and, unfortunately, in conservation conditions that do not respect that legacy- as a ‘must’ to spend the afternoon watching the sun set on the horizon in one of the most representative postcards of the city.
This Saturday, up to 1,300 people, according to sources from the Urban Guardhave concentrated in the vicinity of Turó de la Rovira, on another day in which the emblematic enclave and all its adjacent streets have been overwhelmed -finally, the police operation He had to evacuate the area around 8:00 p.m.-, transforming, once again, into a nightmare for some neighbors who see with bitterness and boredom how every weekend or before a holiday the anti-aircraft batteries become a pole of tourist attraction that fills with noise, disturbance and dirt a neighborhood that has continuously denounced this problem before the council and that has been forced to demonstrate to provoke a reaction from the political establishment.
These repeated and long-standing complaints from the inhabitants of the Carmel neighborhood are what have led to the Barcelona’s town hall to get down to work and advance the police force, initially scheduled for April 1 and already in operation since March, to manage access to the bunkers, blocking the way for private vehicles, and act so that uncivil acts are not committed that , on this occasion, they have ‘punished’ themselves with personal IDs, but no penalties.
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Following the City Council’s recent threat of sanctions and confiscation of music and light equipment in the event that saraos continue to be staged in the Carmel bunkers, this Saturday there have been no DJs ‘enlivening’ the evening to those present, but the consumption of alcohol in public has continued, this time without cans but with glass bottles.
About to run out fencing works that will allow the anti-aircraft batteries to be closed at night, and that has aroused so much misgivings among the residents – fear that, as happened last weekend with the previous eviction, tourists end up dispersing through the neighborhood and ‘invading’ other emblematic places as the Turó del Carmel or the Creueta del Coll-, the councilor of Horta-Guinardo, Rosa Alarconhas admitted that it is a problem that cannot be solved in the short term, since it considers that the definitive solution involves achieving a “change of habits“in visitors.