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0136.122° N · 5.351° W
Place guide · Alameda GardensAlameda Gardens

A subtropical public garden in Gibraltar's city centre, established in the eighteenth century and redeveloped in the nineteenth, famous for its mature exotic trees, bandstand, diverse birdlife and the Cable Car station that connects visitors directly to the Upper Rock summit.

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0236.111° N · 5.347° W
Place guide · Europa PointEuropa Point

The southernmost tip of Gibraltar, where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar, marked by a working lighthouse, a chapel built by the British in the nineteenth century, and the Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque — the southernmost mosque in Europe.

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0336.121° N · 5.346° W
Place guide · Great Siege TunnelsGreat Siege Tunnels

A remarkable military tunnel complex carved by the British Army inside the Upper Rock during the Great Siege of Gibraltar of 1779 to 1783, later expanded to become a 50-kilometre underground network of corridors, chambers and gun emplacements.

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0436.130° N · 5.344° W
Place guide · The Rock of GibraltarThe Rock of Gibraltar

A 426-metre limestone massif at Gibraltar's centre, crowned by a nature reserve that is home to the only free-ranging Barbary macaques in Europe, with sweeping views across the Strait of Gibraltar to North Africa.

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0536.116° N · 5.344° W
Place guide · St. Michael's CaveSt. Michael's Cave

A cathedral-like cave system within the Upper Rock of Gibraltar, formed in Jurassic limestone and known for its dramatic stalactite and stalagmite formations and an underground lake, used since Roman times as a venue for concerts and official events.

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0636.124° N · 5.351° W
Place guide · Trafalgar CemeteryTrafalgar Cemetery

A small walled cemetery on the western slope of Gibraltar's city centre, containing the graves of British and Spanish casualties from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and several other naval engagements, named after Lord Nelson's decisive victory rather than after the dead buried within it.

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