Laurence Dollimore
BRITISH tourists have been told to ‘dress properly’ while walking through the streets of the Costa del Sol.
A new campaign by the City Council of Malaga has plastered posters in English around the city with the headline ‘dress completely’.
Above a drawing of a man and woman clearly wearing t-shirts, it reads: “Both on the street and in public places, always wear an upper garment for respect and hygiene.”
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The message is repeated in Spanish at the bottom of the poster.
The poster is clearly directed at British tourists, who make up the majority of foreign visitors to Spain.
It comes as local anti-tourism groups continue to share pictures of holidaymakers without their consent.
One ‘guiris go home’ page share a photo of three friends walking through Malaga city topless, just days after uploading a picture of a topless man and his girlfriend in her bikini.
They complained that nothing was being done to fine topless people walking around the city centre, after it was made illegal last year.
Under the new laws, visitors to Malaga city could be fined up to €750 for walking around public places topless.
The legislation, which has been underway since 2019, was finally given the green light in September.
The Junta de Andalucia updated ‘citizen coexistence’ rules to enforce the plans, initially approved in December 2022.
Article 36 of the law now makes it an offence to be in public spaces while naked or wearing only underwear.
The measures, believed to primarily target hen and stag dos, also bans partygoers from carrying inflatable sex dolls or wearing anything that represents human genitalia.
According to Article 38 of the law, anyone who is warned of the restrictions and ignores police, risks being fined up to €750 in line with ‘minor offences’.
It has long been an offence to walk around topless in Marbella but the rule is rarely enforced.
In October, Sevilla also introduced measures to stop ‘obscene’ behaviour from partygoers.
The ban prohibits wearing only underwear in public, as well as clothes with sexist or xenophobic messaging.
