• Don't miss St Michael’s Cave, situated 300m (1,000ft) above sea level. This was known to the Romans for its spectacular stalactites and stalagmites. It is part of a complex series of interlinked caves including Leonora’s Cave and Lower St Michael’s Cave. Today, it is used for concerts and ballet. The Upper Galleries, hewn by hand from the Rock in 1782, house old cannons and tableaux evoking the Great Siege (1779-1783).

• In the Apes’ Den, take pictures of the famous barbary apes, which are in fact not apes but macaque monkeys without tails. The barbary apes are the only wild primates in Europe.

• In the Gibraltar Museum, see a replica of the Gibraltar Skull, the first Neanderthal skull found in Europe (1848) and caveman tools and ornaments excavated from the Rock’s caves. There are also exhibits from the Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Moorish, Spanish and British periods of the Rock’s history; a comprehensive collection of prints and lithographs; a collection of weapons from 1727 to 1800; a large-scale model of the Rock made in 1865; and displays of fauna and flora. The museum itself was built above a spectacular and complete 14th-century Moorish Bath House.

• Other sites of interest include: the 14th-century keep of the much rebuilt Moorish Castle; the Shrine of Our Lady of Europe, a mosque before conversion to a Christian chapel in 1462, housing the 15th-century image of the Patroness of Gibraltar; the Lighthouse and Mosque, beautifully designed blending classic Islamic designs with modern facilities; the Rock Buster, a 100-ton gun; the 18th-century Garrison Library; and Europa Point, the southernmost tip of Europe, just 26km (16 miles) from Africa.

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