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Calella and mass tourism

Calella, Maresme, Barcelona

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Calella and mass tourism

Historical milestone · Calella, Maresme, Barcelona

From 1960 onwards the villa exchanged its knitwear factories for hotels and became one of the first capitals of tourism on the Maresme coast. The growth reordered the seafront and tripled the hotel capacity.

1960

Photo: Ajuntament de Calella (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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