Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Gibraltar has three marinas: Marina Bay, Ocean Village Marina, and Queensway Quay Marina. [1] Ocean Village Marina is located on Gibraltar's Westside, outside the northern end of Gibraltar Harbour, in the Bay of Gibraltar, next to the airport runway. [2] It is adjacent to Marina Bay which is just to its north. [3]
In 1753, a survey of Gibraltar went on showing a prison at the western end of the square. [3] After the Great Siege, a colonnaded Georgian guardhouse was built on the southern side of the square. [1] It was the Main Guard, the place from which all the sentries in Gibraltar were posted each evening. [5] Some years later it hosted the Fire ...
An aerial view of modern Gibraltar, looking north-west. The nature and position of Gibraltar's defences have been dictated by the territory's topography.It is a long, narrow peninsula measuring 5.1 kilometres (3.2 miles) by 1.6 kilometres (1 mile) wide at maximum, with a land area of about six square kilometres (2.3 square miles).
Archaeological finds at Grand Casemates Square in the 1990s, included remains of what are believed to be the foundations of a 14th-century galley house.. Grand Casemates Square dates back to Gibraltar's Moorish period when the place was first fortified, making it as old as the city itself.
The Port of Gibraltar, also known as Gibraltar Harbour, is a seaport in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It was a strategically important location during the Napoleonic Wars and after 1869 served as a supply point for ships travelling to India through the Suez Canal . [ 2 ]
The Bay of Gibraltar is a bay at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula.It is around 10 km (6.2 mi) long by 8 km (5.0 mi) wide, covering an area of some 75 km 2 (29 sq mi), with a depth of up to 400 m (1,300 ft) in the centre of the bay.
The Gibraltar National Museum is a national museum of the history, culture and natural history of Gibraltar located within the city centre of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Founded in 1930 by the then Governor of Gibraltar , General Sir Alexander Godley , the museum houses an array of displays portraying The Rock's millennia-old ...