Barcelona may be renowned for its superb collection of Modernist architecture, its cutting-edge cuisine, its Gothic center, and its world-class shopping but, thanks to a long, sandy coastline and budget airlines such as Easyjet, it has recently developed a reputation for "low-cost" tourism that focuses almost exclusively on booze and beach. Since the spring, residents in the famously cosmopolitan city — tired of being awakened at 4 a.m. by the drunken shouts of a visiting bachelor party or startled by young women strolling through its streets in bikinis and flip-flops — have begun fighting back.
In April, the municipal government launched a "sensitivity campaign" designed to remind visitors of the good behavior expected of them. Posters depicting stick figures dressed (barely) in bathing suits with a red line drawn over them went up on the city's kiosks and subway walls. Another, with the slogan "Everything fits here but not everything goes," is similarly graphic about urinating in the streets.
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