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Gibraltar - 'The Imperial Rock'
Once an icon of British Imperial might, the Rock of Gibraltar is now little more than a tiny – though fascinatingly unique – little community at the southern tip of Europe. Periodically ‘el peñon’ re-emerges as a thorn in the side of Anglo-Spanish relations, but as a strategically important garrison it nothing remains but a colourful and heroic history.

Nevertheless it is one of those places that should be visited at least once…and anyone who takes time to get to know Gibraltar and the proud and secular Gibraltarians is unlike to look on the place with anything but yearning fondness.

Profile:
Area: 6.5 sq km
Population: 27,000
Population density: 4,153 people / sq km
Languages: English, Spanish and – between Gibraltarians – a weird brand of ‘Spanglish’ which frequently switches from one language to another mid-sentence.
Conversation stopper: When Winston Churchill was told that the Rock would cease to be British on the day that the last ape died, he immediately set the wheels in secure fresh imports from Morocco.
Articles:
Between a Rock and a Hard Place – past, present and future

 

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