Guarding the straits between the Med and the Atlantic, this colony has been in British hands for the last 300 years and Blighty shows no signs of letting go. Out and about, you’ll find clues like bobbies on the beat, pubs, pillar boxes and battered cod. Step inside the Rock to explore St Michael’s Cave or trace the maze of tunnels built during the Great Siege of 1779-83. A cable car ride to the top leads to the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, home to the Pillars of Hercules Monument, O’Hara’s Battery (a massive gun capable of blasting the shores of Africa), the remains of the Moorish castle, and those ever-inquisitive handbag-fanciers, the Barbary Apes…

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