Fires that destroyed the homes of North African farm-workers were burned out yesterday and the angry cries of "Out with the Moors!" were silent.
But the passions behind three days of anti-immigrant violence in the small southern Spanish town of El Ejido still burned. Fifty-five people were injured and 23 arrested in the chaos.
"Taking to the streets was the only recourse," said Mr Juan Amate Lopez (52), a Spaniard whose face turned red as he angrily listed crimes - rape, robbery, murder - that he blamed on immigrant workers.
"There is no racism here," he said, repeating a favourite refrain of some residents. "Immigration is out of control."
Long-simmering tensions between the Spanish-born and foreign labourers erupted in El Ejido on Saturday after the stabbing death of a 26-year-old Spanish woman blamed on a Moroccan man.
Emotions had been running high in El Ejido since the killing of two local farmers two weeks earlier. A Moroccan was arrested as the main suspect.
Mobs ransacked Moroccan-owned businesses, set fire to their ramshackle houses, screamed "Out with the Moors!" and destroyed a makeshift mosque in a workers' shantytown.
The rampage has exposed the frustrations of a country struggling to cope with an influx of poor North Africans badly needed to harvest fruit and vegetables in the south.
Immigrant leaders urged workers to stage an indefinite strike yesterday, but it was unclear how many could afford to miss their wages.
Life was nearly back to normal yesterday as shops reopened doors and students returned to school.
Still, the town remained split. Moroccans congregated near the main police station, saying they felt unsafe elsewhere.
Spaniards gathered on the other side of the street. In between stood police, hundreds rushed in from surrounding parts of the Andalucia region.
Ten years ago El Ejido attracted few Moroccan immigrants. But by the mid-1990s a farming boom turned the coastal valley into a sea of plastic-topped greenhouses.
"People think that this will be the life. Europe. It's not like Africa," said Mr Kamal Kalil (24), who lives in the shantytown known as Mesquite Hill. "But look at this," he said, surveying the handmade shacks whose roofs are plastic sheet held down by rocks. "You can't change this."
Farm workers earn about $25 a day, perhaps four times what they can make in Morocco. Yet that does not go far in a local economy inflated by northern Europeans flocking to golf holidays in the sun.
"They won't let us in their bars and restaurants," Mr Kalil said. "They let dogs into their bars but not a Moroccan."