Streets in Gibraltar
Streets in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar are represented by road signs as in the United Kingdom.
[1][2] Most of the traditional Spanish names for the streets in Gibraltar were established before 1870 when the local police added signs.
The deputy librarian of the Garrison Library issued a list of the streets in English and Spanish in the Gibraltar Directory of 1890 to assist.
Other features at the square include Duke of Kent House, which is home to the Gibraltar Tourist Board,[7] the Bristol Hotel[8] a children's play park and a boulevard lined with nine cannon overlooking the harbour.
In August 2011, the steps were repainted in red, white, and blue by volunteers intent on restoring the Union Jack.
It runs south of Gibraltar International Airport, extending from Winston Churchill Avenue east to Eastern Beach Road.
[13][14] The road was named after Devil's Tower, a 17th-century watchtower which formed part of the northern defences of Gibraltar as mentioned in the Treaty of Utrecht.
Along its way the road passes The Rock Hotel, Gibraltar Botanic Gardens, Royal Naval Hospital and the Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque.
[26] Europort Avenue is built on reclaimed land and buildings include McDonald's fast food, Morrisons supermarket and St Bernard's Hospital.
At one end is a roundabout that features a sculpture by Jill Cowie Sanders of a larger than lifesize family being reunited.
[29] The Gibraltar Public School opened on Flat Bastion Road in 1832 and served as a free institution for impoverished children of all denominations.
The damage to this area during the Siege of Gibraltar (1727) was sufficiently severe that the British opted to demolish the buildings and make an esplanade.
[12] Irish Town is one of Main Street's sub-districts running parallel to it, from Cooperage Lane in the north to John Mackintosh Square in the south.
It runs immediately east of the Line Wall Curtain in a north–south direction, connecting Smith Dorrien Avenue near Grand Casemates Square with the southern end of Main Street at Southport Gates.
[40] The street runs north–south through the old town which is pedestrianised and lined with buildings displaying a blend of Genoese, Portuguese, Andalusian, Moorish and British Regency styles,[40] most of which have shops on the ground floor.
It contains wide variety of shops, many of which are familiar from British high streets such as a branch of Marks & Spencer.
In connects the marina with the industrial park in the south and passes all of the harbours and ports on the west coast.
Town Range is also known in Spanish as Calla Cuarteles as this reflects the older name of New Barracks Street.
The younger John Turnbull left the rock during the Great Siege of Gibraltar but he kept links for fifty years.
[4] The road is named after a Marine Lieutenant Thomas Willis who in 1704 installed the first guns in Princess Charlotte's Battery.
The road intersects the runway of the Gibraltar Airport; movable barricades close when aircraft land or take off.
In 2009, the Government of Gibraltar announced that a new highway will be built in order to avoid the crossing of the airport runway.
A new 1.24-kilometre (0.77 mi) road connecting Gibraltar to Spain with access to the airport was proposed and the contract was awarded in 2009 to OBL at a cost of €35.78 million.
