Major tourist attraction reveals plans to double entry fee – but only for holidaymakers

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ONE of Europe's astir fashionable attractions has revealed plans to treble introduction fees for tourists.

Barcelona's Park Güell welcomes millions of tourists a year.

Barcelona's Park Güell could treble  fees for tourists

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Barcelona's Park Güell could treble fees for touristsCredit: Getty

The attraction welcomes millions of tourists a year

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The attraction welcomes millions of tourists a yearCredit: AFP

However, the attraction could soon outgo a batch more, with the section authorities revealing a hike successful fees for holidaymakers.

Designed by Antoni Gaudi, Park Güell was escaped to sojourn until 2013.

Currently, entranceway interest costs betwixt €10 (£8.36) and €14 (£11.70), with the second including entree to the depository arsenic good arsenic the park.

However BComú has revealed plans to summation this to €20 (16.72), local media reports.

This means it would beryllium a akin terms to different attractions successful the metropolis specified arsenic the Sagrada Familia (€26/£21.74) and Casa Batllo (€29/£24.24).

But this besides means tourists would beryllium forced to ammunition retired astir €80 (£66.88) to spot the large attractions.

However, Catalonia's tourism caput Cristina Lagé explained the caller fees are portion of a wider summation successful tourer taxes being introduced to trim the unit connected locals.

She said successful a section interrogation this would assistance services relation properly.

Park Güell's different caller rules introduced see tickets lone being disposable to bargain online, which was introduced successful July.

This is successful spot to trim the crowds astatine the entranceway of the park.

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The metropolis assembly said it volition besides "encourage scheduled visits, make staggered and fluid entree to the parkland and debar unnecessary question and dissatisfaction erstwhile tickets are unavailable".

Park Güell erstwhile welcomed arsenic galore arsenic 9 cardinal tourists a year, though past twelvemonth reported astir 4.4million.

It's not the lone tourer attraction looking astatine hiking fees for holidaymakers.

Turkey's Hagia Sophia is present charging tourists  €25 (£22) to sojourn with entree to the mosaics and assemblage floor.

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There is the Sagrada Familia church, Park Guell and Casa Batllo each wrong a fewer kilometres of each other.

I chose to research Gaudi’s Casa Mila this time, with a behind-the-scenes Sunrise Guided Tour with GetYourGuide (£33.63pp).

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It serves the worldly successful a immense assortment of flavours, including limoncello and basil, and lime, orangish and mint.

Portugal has ditched introduction fees to 38 of their attractions - though tourists inactive person to pay.

And we've rounded up the attractions that are escaped to sojourn crossed England.

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