Slums of the past emerging from sands amid climate fears for Barcelona’s beaches

Slums of the past emerging from sands amid climate fears for Barcelona’s beaches

Locals and visitors in Barcelona have more than just waves of overtourism, housing and surging prices to worry about, according to new reports about rising sea levels and storms that are eating away at the Spanish city’s coast. The maresme or “marshes” north of the Catalonian capital, were transformed in preparation for the 1992 Olympic Games. They were once characterised by shantytowns, like Somorrostro, where communities of fishers and Roma pe…