(16 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lisbon, Portugal – 15 June 2025
1. Close of Santo Antonio statue with backpack and sign reading (Portuguese): “For the right to the city”
2. Santo Antonio statue being carried by demonstrators leading protest march with tuk tuks in the background
3. Tuk tuk message reading “La Belle Lisbonne” as protesters pass by
4. Various of protest in downtown Lisbon
5. Protesters shouting UPSOUND (English): “Go home” to tourists
6. St Anthony statue leading the protest up the hill
7. Italian tourist Anna Herela watching protest march
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Anna Herela, tourist from Milan:
“Yes absolutely it doesn’t surprise me and I can understand them (the protesters). Truly there are so many tourists, look at this tram so full. We waited almost two hours today to be able to get into the tram. I understand them and that on their daily lives this can be tiresome and that it bothers them.”
9. Traditional Lisbon tram full of people
10. Tuk tuk passing with tourists looking at protest
11. Various of St Anthony and sign reading (Portuguese): “Lisbon against ‘touristification’”
12. Protesters chanting UPSOUND (Portuguese): “The city is to live in, and not to speculate on”
13. Various of protest moving across the city, people watching from their windows
14. Tilt down from Santo Antonio church exterior to Santo Antonio statue
15. Close of statue and sign reading (Portuguese): “For the right to the city”
16. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Tamara Lopez, Lisbon resident, organizer:
“We want to protest against the ‘touristification’ of the city, those of us who live in the city we feel that it is increasingly less a city for those who live and work in it, but rather completely focused on tourism. We have less services, more expensive rents and we believe it has reached its limit and that we need less tourism in this city.”
17. Close of sign
18. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Tamara Lopez, Lisbon resident, organizer:
“Santo Antonio is the most popular saint of the city so because it is the month of its celebration (in Lisbon), we wanted to use it as a symbol of how people feel, increasingly expelled from the city due to tourism.”
19. Santo Antonio statue and flower wall
20. Tourists posing for photos
21. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marco Seabra, 27, Lisbon resident:
“This issue of selling the cities for the tourists, Southern Europe with the sun, the sea, the beach – there are two processes. We don’t have the public services and the sale of our cities as tourism destinations, that cities are only for tourism and that the business model of the cities is tourism, it is a phenomenon happening across countries in Southern Europe.”
22. Tilt down from house to protest march in street
STORYLINE:
Some 300 Lisbon residents on Sunday walked through the historic old town of the city in a protest against mass tourism.
They chanted as they passed by trams and tuk tuks up and down the hills of the city while tourists looked on curiously, taking photographs.
At one point some of the protesters chanted “go home” to a few tourists.
Demonstrators marched in a symbolic procession from the Church of Santo Antonio – the patron of the city who is celebrated this month – to a building currently projected to be another hotel in the city.
They claim that the Saint who is believed to have been born in Lisbon in the 12th century, would also have been evicted under the current housing crisis.
The protest was part of the first coordinated effort by activists concerned with the ills of overtourism across southern Europe’s top destinations.
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