A rebellion is brewing on the Costa Brava in Catalonia’s naturist community. With every summer that passes, their beaches are baring less flesh.
The nudists have had enough, demanding action from the authorities to defend them from the remorseless erosion of the right to whip off their trunks and bikinis free of the oppressive, disapproving glances of the new neighbours.
With practically no deserted coves or virgin sand left along Spain’s coastline, the remote spots to which naturists gravitated have been colonised by those with non-naturist ideologies. The “textiles”, as naturists call the invaders, are taking over. Segimon Rovira, president of the Catalan Naturist Club, says this is demoralising his community.
The club has joined forces with the Naturist-Nudist Federation of Catalonia to call on
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