‘Gibraltar more than meets the eye’

What will we visit on this tour?

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  9 Casemates Square, Gibraltar GX11 1A...

  9 Casemates Square, Gibraltar GX11 1AA, Gibraltar

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  I will have a tour guide badge at Casemates Square right across Latino’s Restaurant holding a small file

• 1
  Outside visit

  Grand Casemates Square

  Visit to Land-port old entrance, casemates vaults once a nineteenth century barracks today a recreational area and entrance into the city

• 2
  Outside visit

  Landport gate

  We will visit Land port with views of the old moorish, sixteenth and eighteenth walls followed by historical anecdotes.

• 3
  Outside visit

  American War Memorial

  Visit this historical and unique American memorial triumphal arch with plaques honouring those Americans who gave their lives during the First World War.

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• 4
  Outside visit

  Irish Town

  Irish town full of bars and restaurants a very unique street with historical depth dating back to the XVI to XIX century i will give you an explanation of the importance of this street and its beautiful buildings.

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  Outside visit

  Old Police Station

  The beautiful old police station dating from 1864 with its gothic northern Italian style is one of the oldest and was formed right after Scotland Yard in the UK.

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  Outside visit

  British War Memorial

  This memorial site commemorates those who died during World War I and next to it two war canons brought over dating from the 1858’s Crimean war.

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  Outside visit

  John Mackintosh Square

  Mckintosh Square is at the heart of Gibraltar it was known as the Plaza Mayor during the Spanish period and was later grand military square, today locals call it la piazza an Italian term where one can find the city council building and house of parliament and tourist office an old military guard room.

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  Outside visit

  King's Bastion Leisure Centre

  This Bastion built in the old line wall road dating back to the XVIII and XIX centuries with an impressive historic site which blends in with the leisure centre adjacent which has an impressive history marking Gibraltar’s siege and this site historical blends with, Campion park, mid town and beautiful commonwealth park.

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  Outside visit

  Holy Trinity Cathedral Anglican

  Gibraltar’s Anglican Cathedral located in Cathedral square was built in moorish style architecture, close by to the Cathedral lies a tiny mosque, the Flemish synagogue and Gibraltar’s museum in bomb house lane (Optional £15 ADULT £7.50 CHILDREN UNDER 12 FREE INFANTS UNDER 5 GIBRALTAR ID CARD HOLDERS} Close by is the Georgian style Bristol hotel where prominent figures have stayed and once a prestigious hotel which later Rock hotel took the lead.

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  Outside visit

  Cathedral of Saint Mary the Crowned

  This building is one of the oldest buildings dating back to the Islamic period where a Mosque once stood in which little remains from that epoch, later it became a Gothic church during the Spanish period and later restored during the British period neoclassic gothic mix style. Today is the Cathedral of the local roman catholic diocese of Gibraltar

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  Outside visit

  Convent Place

  The convent is today the residence of the governor of Gibraltar once a Franciscan monastery from the XVI century which today parts of it and the kings chapel remains adjacent to later British period reconstruction. Right across lies number 6 local government building and the Methodist church close by.

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  Outside visit

  Grand Casemates Square
• 13
  Outside visit

  Inces Hall Theatre

  The XVIII century military Armoury later became the local theatre named after General Inces, right across lies thee stone block building with a doorway of the church of Church of the rosary from the Spanish period. Close by Charles V walls with its three gates and trafalgar cemetery.