There’s a lot exotic about it: – British influence as in origin of some of the locals, the official language plus some buildings and things look like right out of the UK. – Spanish influence in language, roots in some people and some customs. – Italian influence in some people’s origin and most residential houses are in an Italian style rather than the Andalusian vernacular. – Also lots of people are of Moroccan, Maltese, Hebrew, Portuguese or Indian origin and, lately of Eastern European/Slavic extractions. – It has the largest share (not size) of Jewish population outside of Israel (20.0 Jews per 1000 inhabitants), the 2nd is the US with 17.4. And the Hindu people in Gibraltar are 2.0% of the population, making it the place in Europe with the largest % of the population being Hindu. – Apes – One of the best climates in Continential Europe IMO. Never too cold in winter (it is warmer in winter than Athens and Southern Italy usually) and never as hot as other Med places in summer (rarely gets above +30 C).
– They imported beautiful golden Sahara sand for one of their beaches (the natural sand in those parts of Iberia are somewhat grayish).
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There’s a lot exotic about it:
– British influence as in origin of some of the locals, the official language plus some buildings and things look like right out of the UK.
– Spanish influence in language, roots in some people and some customs.
– Italian influence in some people’s origin and most residential houses are in an Italian style rather than the Andalusian vernacular.
– Also lots of people are of Moroccan, Maltese, Hebrew, Portuguese or Indian origin and, lately of Eastern European/Slavic extractions.
– It has the largest share (not size) of Jewish population outside of Israel (20.0 Jews per 1000 inhabitants), the 2nd is the US with 17.4. And the Hindu people in Gibraltar are 2.0% of the population, making it the place in Europe with the largest % of the population being Hindu.
– Apes
– One of the best climates in Continential Europe IMO. Never too cold in winter (it is warmer in winter than Athens and Southern Italy usually) and never as hot as other Med places in summer (rarely gets above +30 C).
– They imported beautiful golden Sahara sand for one of their beaches (the natural sand in those parts of Iberia are somewhat grayish).