With his rebates of the custody and his pubs, this little piece of the South of the southern Iberian Peninsula is also a concentrate of Mediterranean charm, exotic trees of the Gardens of the Alameda to the wrought iron balconies of the Old town.
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The Gibraltar sailor remains in platform. He no longer short the seas of the world with the novel of Marguerite Duras, he works aboard the Sunborn, huge cruise ship moored at the foot of the rock which draws up his silhouette of limestone at the end of Europe. It never takes the wide, the white liner is much less ship than the luxury hotel, 189 rooms and suites that dominate the restaurants, casinos and shops of a marina conquered on the sea in the early 2000s.
Square meters are so counted and expensive on this little piece of United Kingdom (6.5 square kilometers), which it was easier and cost-effective to tow the floating palace opened in 2014, explains Marc Skvorc, The Californian who runs the building for a Finnish company and an essentially British clientele. As Gibraltar was the first “nation” in the world vaccinated against the virus and one of the few destinations accessible from London during the Pandemic of Covid, and since this “British overseas territory” is famous for its express wedding since. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married in 1969, Sunborn became a must for English lovers in search of wedding travel, was he motionless.
When they disembark to wander in main street and the alleys around, they find what it takes red phone booths, more real pubs and students in uniforms to feel at home. There is even the Union Jack painted on the lime walks Kiln Road that climbs towards the heights or episodic is the guard between the government’s seat and the governor’s residence. But, at the detour of places and gardens, palm trees, cacti and orange trees pose their exotic touch. At the option of the old town, the lounges of wood that a canopy opens in half and that it looks like Italy, the few walls with the bluish earthenware from Portugal or the forged iron balconies found in Malta. Also say that Gibraltar is not just an annex of the Sussex or the missing end to Andalusia that claims Spain.
It is the Mediterranean crucible formed by history since 1713 and the Treaty of Utrecht by which the first Bourbon of Spain had to give the rock to the rock British crown, “in full possession and forever” with some conditions including the exclusion of Jews and Moors. Today, there are still four synagogues, including the beautiful “Flemish” (Flemish) desired by Amsterdam seforades in 1800 and yet covered with arabesques in the Hospano-Moorish craftsmanship. That said, even the neighboring Anglican cathedral has the pace of steam with its moldings and its serrated arches …
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