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For the sixth evening in a row, protests against the arrest of the rapper Pablo Hasél broke out in Barcelona.
As on the previous evening, there were clashes between demonstrators and the police on Sunday.
Hundreds of people gathered at Barcelona-Sants train station and shouted “Freedom for Pablo Hasél”.
On the way to the city center, some demonstrators threw garbage cans and other projectiles at police officers and erected barricades, including on the Las Ramblas boulevard.
According to the police, at least five people were arrested for smashing the window of a shop.
On Saturday evening, several thousand people took to the streets in Spain's second largest city.
Serious riots broke out on the fringes of the protests.
According to police, numerous shops in the city center were looted, barricades set on fire and historic buildings damaged.
Police arrested 38 people across Catalonia.
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Hasél was arrested on Tuesday for failing to serve a nine-month prison sentence for insulting the Spanish royal family and state institutions.
On Thursday, the 32-year-old was sentenced to another two and a half years in prison for allegedly threatening a witness in a trial against two police officers.
There have been protests every evening in Spain since Tuesday.
They began in Hasél's native Catalonia, but have since expanded to Madrid and other cities.
There have been several clashes with the police.
In total, more than a hundred people have been arrested.