La Puerta del Sol is one of my favorite areas of Madrid. However, every hippie in Spain has occupied the entire square protesting the current political situation. From what I am hearing from locals is that legitimate parties who were protesting the current government left weeks ago and those who remain are anarchist and hippies with no real complaint. I took a stroll through the tent city yesterday and it smells of urine and of course marijuana. La Policia and the La Guardia Civil have done nothing to stop them and from what the papers are saying they do not plan to remove them anytime soon. That means local shops, independent musicians, and peddlers will suffer economically.
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