Protesters have occupied a beach in Majorca (Image: Mallorca Platja Tour (@MallorcaPlatja) on X) Campaigners today (June 16) took over a picture postcard cove in Majorca made famous around the world by influencer Instagrammers in the latest Spanish anti-mass tourism protest. Islanders kept their promise to ‘reclaim’ stunning Calo des Moro from foreign holidaymakers by taking up every inch of space on the tiny 98-foot wide stretch of sand with their beach towels shortly after 8am. The protest went ahead despite attempts by local mayoress Maria Pons to get organisers Mallorca Platja Tour to think again.
She claimed earlier this week the south coast cove, which locals turn their backs on many months of the year when it becomes a tourist must-see, had become an “obsession” and what it needed was a rest. Platform Mallorca Platja Tour said as its protest got underway: “For one day Calo des Moro will belong to the Majorcans.” As well as laying down beach towels between the rocks on either side of the sand, campaigners also unfurled a huge banner stretching across the cove which said: ‘Ocupem Les Nostres Platges’ - ‘Let’s Occupy our beaches’ function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.
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