Spain warns visitors: €750 fines
Spain is handing out new local ordinances ahead of Semana Santa — UK visitors have been warned about on‑the‑spot €750 fines for certain street rules during Easter. (euroweeklynews.com) Travelers are being advised to check local rules before booking or arriving. (euroweeklynews.com)
Palma approved a new municipal “Ordenanza para el fomento de la convivencia cívica” that was published in the Boletín Oficial de las Islas Baleares on 24 May 2025 and entered into force later that month after plenary approval. (europapress.es) Barcelona’s updated Ordenanza de Civismo came into force on 15 February 2026 and raises maximum sanctions for certain public‑order offences — including public urination, street drinking and being seminudity in public — with top penalties cited at €3,000 in the municipal texts. (lavanguardia.com) The city of Barcelona recorded 982 administrative reports in the first week (15–22 February 2026) after the new rules began to be applied, according to municipal figures released to the press. (infobae.com) Spain’s Dirección General de Tráfico published a national resolution on 14 January 2026 establishing special traffic‑management measures for the year and is activating its multi‑phase “Operación Semana Santa” to cope with seasonal peaks that routinely generate over 15.8 million road movements. (dgt.es) As part of the 2026 enforcement push the DGT has rolled out dozens of new fixed speed‑control points — 33 new radars were reported installed in March 2026 — and national police warnings flagged intensified controls and checkpoints for the Semana Santa period. (lne.es) Multiple local ordinances now single out behaviours such as walking away from the beach in swimwear, public drinking and smoking/vaping in specific zones, measures that are explicitly regulated in the Balearic BOIB texts for Palma and in Barcelona’s new civics code. (euroweeklynews.com)
