Barcelona, Saturday afternoon. The city is filled with visitors during the last weekend of June. In the area between Plaza España and the Parallel, the Prideparea. In La Rambla, tourists and regular visitors walk, dressed for the party, elegant. At the front door of El Liceu, hundreds of people are waiting to enter the theater. Unlike most of those who go up and down La Rambla, the Barcelonese speak Catalan and occasionally in Spanish. Attendees to the 85th anniversary commemorative programme of the Massana School, in exchange of 15 euros to listen to the singers María del Mar Bonet and Pau Riba and the largest Catalan poets. People that have little to do with those who dress on the Ramblas.

I take the advice of a professor and look at some buildings in my city with the eyes of a visitor, as if I saw them for the first time. Buildings, streets and public. It's almost always about failed attempts, it's hard for you to give yourself up.

When I meet a group of tourists in Pamplona, I imagine myself as one of them, deciphering posters that those in the house do not need and do not tell those outside what they need. I try to understand why the monument to the Confinement is so appealing: for us to do as a brave corridor for the photos is like doing as if we were touching the Eiffel Tower or the Pisa Tower with the tip of our fingers.

On the weekend of Barcelona, we turned for a couple of hours at home, on Massana's birthday. Few people would realize that we were tourists, with the discretion we share Catalans and Basques. Pure illusion: once we went out into the street, we were once again visitors,
extraños.Para to tell their relatives and friends, those who are impregnated with strange cultures but do not visit the museums of their city. This is – gara – tourists, in the definition of Adriana Aguirre’s “tourist” Pros www.arquitectura-politica.org article on Barcelona’s tourist excesses. “If a tourist asks a Barcelonan what to visit and what not, Barcelonés tells him not to go to the La Mina neighborhood and to approach La Rambla, but in reality, Barcelona’s phobic tourism will always try not to enter the jungle of human states, roses and memories.” Aguirre proposes to allocate part of its tourist benefits to the defence of local values. If we went to visit the house, and if not, if we are...