Castles & Palaces
The Rock of Gibraltar with the Moorish Castle tower above the town — the strategic limestone promontory at the entrance to the Mediterranean

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Castles in Gibraltar

A British Overseas Territory on the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, Gibraltar's dramatic limestone Rock has been one of the most strategically contested sites in the western Mediterranean since 711 CE, when Umayyad commander Tariq ibn Ziyad's forces named it Jabal al-Tariq — giving the world the word 'Gibraltar'. The Moorish Castle's Tower of Homage, the Great Siege Tunnels carved through solid rock, and the Rock's resident Barbary macaques make Gibraltar one of Europe's most compact and historically charged heritage destinations.

The Moorish Castle Tower of Homage on the Rock of Gibraltar — the 14th-century Marinid fortress tower with distinctive alternating red and buff brickwork, the oldest named landmark in the western Mediterranean

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Moorish Castle

The castle that named the Rock — the Moorish fortress built in 711 CE by Tariq ibn Ziyad's forces, whose Arabic name Jabal al-Tariq ('Mountain of Tariq') gave 'Gibraltar' to all subsequent languages

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