Four decades after it exploded, tourism on the islands overheated, leaving in its ashes a forest of massive, block-booked hotels and beach-hugging villa communities with few discernible ties to Spain'places lined with German bier halls, English fish  n' chips joints, and low-rent bars and discos.
Because of the tourism boom, the islands are strewn with artifacts of foreign culture that bear little relation to Spain.
For 40 years tourism has been in decline and local culture has come back strong.