The Clueless Traveler in Melilla, Spain (Season 2, Episode 3)
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Ceuta Tourist Attractions: 10 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Ceuta? Check out our Ceuta Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Ceuta.
Top Places to visit in Ceuta:
Parque Maritimo del Mediterraneo, El Conjunto Monumental de las Murallas Reales, Plaza de Africa, Casa de los Dragones, Parroquia de Santa Maria de Africa, Playa de la Ribera, Basilica Tardorromana, Estatua de Hercules, Monte Hacho, Parque de San Amaro
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Ceuta, Spain (North Africa)
A visit to Ceuta, a Spanish possession in North Africa.
Málaga to Melilla ferry trip on the MS Fortuny cruise-ferry
My ferry ride from Malaga city center to the North African Spanish enclave of Melilla on the cruise ferry MS Fortuny. Also includes some photos I took during my visit to Morocco (Nador, Fes & Tangier)
Maps:
Taken from Google Earth
Music:
Taken from YouTube creators library
1. Sahara Rains by Hanu Dixit
2. Spanish Summer by Audionautix
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Spain Morocco Ferry; Fantastic Crossing of the Straits of Gibraltar
Spain Morocco Ferry
Come aboard and cross 2 continents from Europe to Africa on the FRS Algeciras Jet. Speeding from Tarifa to Tangier in an hour, the journey crosses the most famous Straits of Gibraltar. You'll experience everything you need to know about purchasing your ticket, parking your car, cost, and what to expect on your vessel.
Spain Morocco Ferry
Visiting Ceuta, from Gibraltar
Ceuta is an 18.5-square-kilometre autonomous city of Spain, situated on the north coast of Africa and sharing a western border with Morocco. Separated from the Iberian peninsula by the Strait of Gibraltar, Ceuta lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ceuta, along with the Spanish exclave Melilla, is one of two permanently inhabited Spanish territories in mainland Africa. Ceuta has a population of 82,376, consisting of Christians, Muslims (chiefly Arabic and Berber speakers), and small minorities of Jews and Indian Hindus. Spanish is the official language. The majority of the city's population is officially said to be ethnic Spanish who are opposed to the idea of being ruled by Morocco. However, our taxi driver (born in Bradford, England) thought that around 75% of the current population is Muslim.
The city became Spanish around the time of El Cid (remember the film?) as part of a plan to prevent Spain being occupied by Berber/Muslim armies. It gave Spain a permanent foothold in Africa and a port from which they could exercise greater control over sea traffic entering the Mediterranean. There is a very noticeable Spanish armed forces presence in the city. It's worth comparing Spain's interests in Ceuta with Britain's interests in Gibraltar.
Ceuta is about 22K from Gibraltar and the boat trip back only took about 90 minutes as the sea was quite calm.
Best places to visit
Best places to visit - Ceuta (Spain) Best places to visit - Slideshows from all over the world - City trips, nature pictures, etc.
Top 10 Cities of Spain 2017.Top Ten Biggest Cities in Spain 2017
Top 10 Cities of Spain 2017.Top Ten Biggest Cities in Spain 2017
Spain (Spanish: España [esˈpaɲa] (About this sound listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España),[a][b] is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, with two large archipelagoes, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast, two cities, Ceuta and Melilla, in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only European country to have a border with an African country (Morocco)[h] and its African territory accounts for nearly 5% of its population, mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla.
With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union, and the fourth largest country in the European continent. By population, Spain is the sixth largest in Europe and the fifth in the European Union. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao and Málaga.
Modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago. Iberian cultures along with ancient Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginian settlements developed on the peninsula until it came under Roman rule around 200 BCE, after which the region was named Hispania, based on the earlier Phoenician name Span or Spania.[10] In the Middle Ages, the area was conquered by Germanic tribes and later by the Moors. Spain emerged as a unified country in the 15th century, following the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs and the completion of the eight centuries-long reconquest, or Reconquista from the Moors in 1492. In the early modern period, Spain became one of history's first global colonial empires, leaving a vast cultural and linguistic legacy that includes over 500 million Spanish speakers, making Spanish the world's second most spoken first language, after Mandarin Chinese.
Spain is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy. The current Spanish king is Felipe VI. It is a middle power and a major developed country[11] with the world's fourteenth largest economy by nominal GDP and sixteenth largest by purchasing power parity. It is a member of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the Eurozone, the Council of Europe (CoE), the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and many other international organisations.
SPAIN Tourist Attractions | Top 20 Places to Visit in SPAIN | SPAIN Tour
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Spain (Spanish: España [esˈpaɲa] (About this sound listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España),[a][b] is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, with two large archipelagoes, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast, two cities, Ceuta and Melilla, in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only European country to have a border with an African country (Morocco)[h] and its African territory accounts for nearly 5% of its population, mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla. With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union, and the fourth largest country in the European continent. By population, Spain is the sixth largest in Europe and the fifth in the European Union. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao and Málaga. Modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago. Iberian cultures along with ancient Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginian settlements developed on the peninsula until it came under Roman rule around 200 BCE, after which the region was named Hispania, based on the earlier Phoenician name Sp(a)n or Spania.[10] At the end of the Western Roman Empire the Germanic tribal confederations in migration from Central Europe invaded the Iberian peninsula and established themselves in relatively independent realms in its western provinces. The Visigoths migrating from Eastern Europe were allowed to settle in federated status in the neighbor province of Aquitania in 511, with the treaty obligations among others to assist the Empire with military allied support to expeditions defending its provinces in the West. And so they did in Gaul against Franks, Burgundians and the Sueves, Alans and Vandals depredations in the Iberian peninsula. The military campaigns success against the Vandals and Alans was so sounded that their dominion over the provinces of Betica and Carthaginensis were ended and they restored to the Empire. Both would unite and eventually leave the peninsula for Africa to form the Vandal kingdom. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Goths established the independent Kingdom of Toulouse expanding their domination over the extant Roman provinces in Gaul and Hispania. They took immediate military control of the Narbonensis, Auvergne and Provence and in the peninsula, the Tarraconensis and Carthaginensis from local provincial authorities, and wrestled control of Baetica and Lusitania from the Suebian Kingdom, placing a match to their expansion and passing to be the dominant power in the peninsula regardless of Byzantines and Frankish and Burgundians later incursions or dominion in parts the peninsula. The Suebian kingdom, some independent Hispano-Roman local regions and the Byzantines provincial realm in the peninsula, would be integrated by force into the successor Kingdom of Toledo that more or less unified politically, ecclesiastically and legally all the former Roman provinces or successor kingdoms of what was then known in documents as Hispania.
Algeciras Tourist Attractions: 9 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Algeciras? Check out our Algeciras Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Algeciras.
Top Places to visit in Algeciras:
Parque Maria Cristina, Plaza Alta, Getares, Mercado Ingeniero Torroja, RENFE, Rinconcillo, Parroquia de San Isidro, Sendero Rio de la Miel, Parque Arqueologico de las Murallas Merinies
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