Author: AFP
Publication: The Times of India
Date: May 1, 2011
URL: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-01/europe/29493177_1_bikinis-beach-bans
Tourists in Barcelona who wander off the beach
onto the streets in just their swimming costumes â€" or even
less â€" will now face stiff fines.
The city hall voted to ban "nudity or
virtual nudity in public places" and limit swimming costumes to swimming
pools, beaches, adjacent roads and beach walks. Nudists who stray off their
designated areas of the beach will be subject to fines of 300 to 500 euros.
Those who wander into the streets in bikinis,
swimming trunks or swimsuits face fines of 120 to 300 euros.
Authorities in the city, where the port and
the beach areas are adjacent to the historic old town, earlier this year put
up posters discouraging such behaviour. They showed a couple in swimming costumes
with a red line across it next to another couple dressed normally but without
the red line.
