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"They say that the workers of the Holy Family are not allowed to go on strike. Do not you think it is a good place to organize a picnic in solidarity with them?" This was the slogan in social networks to convene a rally at the gates of one of the emblems of Barcelona. And an opportunity, according to the organizers, to impact the international community with the powerful images of its modernist architecture flanked by hundreds of stelae in a day of general strike in Catalonia.

Several hundred people have wanted to join this Picnic for the Republic in a fairly quiet environment, where whole families equipped with children have begun to chant the usual things. Nothing to do with the violence of the past nights, where some areas of the Eixample exploded on a tremendous battlefield.

Asked about the prohibition to support the strike, some vigilantes and temple workers denied the greatest: " Here who has wanted to go on strike . We are employees of many companies and there has been no slogan." However, only the earliest tourists, perhaps oblivious to the call and armed with paloselfies to the teeth, have managed to enter the enclosure. At 11.30, those responsible for the most visited monument in the city decided to close the lockers until further notice , "unable to guarantee the safety of visitors."

Tourists take a 'selfie' before the Sagrada Familia surrounded by participants to a protest sit-in.

And so, some tourists mutinied at the door have been mixing with the participants of this Picnic by the Republic that repeated, in increasingly upturned chants, the names and surnames of those convicted last Monday in a litany that at times It looked like the alignment of a soccer team. At noon, with the 12 bells of the temple marking the passage of this morning of tense calm, many protesters have begun to leave the esplanade, perhaps with the intention of joining the students who at this time manifest in the Plaza University

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