Visitors will be banned from snapping selfies and touching food at Barcelona's most famous food marketThese agents will have to tell tourists they cannot stand in front of stalls and stop other shoppers accessing them or people walking around the market.
Mercat de la Boqueria was founded in AD1217. Last year, 20 million visitors came to the market, and the numbers have been rising steadily in recent years over tourism in the country that locals say has forced up rents and made life difficult for locals. A wave ofPlatja d’Aro in the Costa Brava For more than a century La Boqueria has been a mecca for cooks but the influx of tourists means locals have tended to avoid it in recent years.