Barcelona attack: What the trees say - BBC News
People from all over the world have been moved to write messages on the plane trees of Las Ramblas.
If each great city takes in a terror attack in its own way, in Barcelona they write on the trees.

Along Las Ramblas, on trees overlooking spots where the van ran people down, the beautiful patchwork of the bark teems with words and symbols.

"The plane trees of Barcelona witnessed the massacre," reads one message, written in Catalan. "They are still standing."

Left by people from all over the planet, in a host of languages, they go from angry to inspirational. Here are some of them:

"You will always [be] in our hearts. Love. Pray for Barcelona. Russia, Moscow"

"Peace in the whole world. Philippines"

"Love" ("amor" means the same in Catalan, Spanish or Portuguese)

"We will never be afraid to live. Peace and freedom are a human right and we will not stop remembering it. We're not afraid" (Catalan)

"You will never defeat us" (Catalan)

"We are all Las Ramblas" (Spanish)

"Keep me in your memory. Leave out all the rest. Love, Barcelona"

"We will never give up" (Catalan)

"God is a god of peace, not of war" (Spanish)

"Love and peace will save the world"

"I still have hope in mankind" (Spanish)

"Barcelona like a jewel in the sun" (lyric from Freddy Mercury song)

"Barbarity in the name of religion" (French)

"The sky is shining brighter now" (Catalan)

"Without love there is no future" (Spanish)

"Peace is not written in blood!" (Spanish)

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"No more hate. Islam is the religion of love"

"Messages of love in times of war" (Spanish)