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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ajit Niranjan, Europe environment correspondent

Southern Europe bakes and burns, turning holiday hotspots into infernos

People holding umbrellas to cover from the sun stand in front of the Eiffel Tower during a heatwave in Paris.
Taking shelter … People holding umbrellas to cover from the sun stand in front of the Eiffel Tower during a heatwave in Paris. Photograph: Mohammed Badra/EPA

Somehow, the heat hits harder when you’re on holiday.

Tourists who hoped to idle on Croatian beaches this week will have instead singed their feet on scorching sand. Families on a break in Madrid will have choked on smoke from a deadly wildfire that ripped through a suburb of the Spanish capital. Visitors to Mount Vesuvius in Italy will have been turned away from the trails as firefighters battled blazes on the volcano’s slopes.

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