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Gibraltar
What to see in Gibraltar? The Rock of Gibraltar and its wild Barbary macaques, Europe’s only free-living monkeys; the Moorish Castle; the wrecks and artificial reef of Camp Bay; and the Strait of Gibraltar itself, where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean.
Diving in Gibraltar
Gibraltar’s waters sit at the meeting point of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, which gives its more than 35 dive sites an unusually mixed cast of marine life — octopus, moray eels, cuttlefish and grouper from both seas, with dolphins and turtles turning up in open water. Camp Bay’s artificial reef, Europe’s first, has turned old barges, ships and even an aircraft fuselage into a shallow, accessible reef system, with the Spanish Barges resting between 7 and 22 meters. The SS Rosslyn, a British steamship sunk in 1916, and further wrecks in the Rosia Bay Marine Conservation Zone offer deeper, more advanced dives around 28 meters.
The Detached Mole and South Mole add rocky reef diving close to the harbor, rounding out a small but varied stretch of coastline that punches well above its size for wreck and reef diving alike.
Country
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, connected to Spain by a narrow isthmus and facing Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar, the gateway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It covers just 6.8 square kilometers, dominated almost entirely by the limestone ridge of the Rock, which rises 426 meters straight out of the bay. The population is around 38,000, English is the official language, and Spanish and the local Llanito dialect are both widely spoken.
The currency is the Gibraltar pound, pegged to and interchangeable with the British pound sterling. The climate is Mediterranean, with mild, wet winters and hot, humid summers. Gibraltar has been under British control since 1704, and its position guarding the strait has made it a fortified naval and military outpost for three centuries, visible today in the Moorish Castle and the tunnels honeycombing the Rock itself.
Most biggest airports
Gibraltar International Airport (GIB), notable for its runway crossing Winston Churchill Avenue, the territory’s main road — connected by short flights to the UK and, via the land border, to Spain’s Málaga airport.