The Rock Hotel is situated on the foothill of Gibraltar‘s famous rock with panoramic vistas of the Bay and Straits of Gibraltar as well as the Spanish mainland. Built-in 1932, it is decorated in a colonial style, and its famous past guests include Sir Winston Churchill, John Lennon and Yoko Ono exchanged their marriage vows […]
The Queen’s Hotel was a hotel in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, located on Boyd Street, between Trafalgar Cemetery and the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens. The hotel was established in 1966. It described itself as “Gibraltar’s only budget hotel”. It closed in June 2014 after being bought out by the Gibraltar Government to make way […]
A British overseas territory captured in 1704, near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar, sharing a border with Spain to the north, but it is more recognised for it famous feature “The Rock of Gibraltar”. Historically it has been an important base for the British Armed Forces and is the […]