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title: STRETCH OF GIBRALTAR

subject date: 2018-05-07

caption: CLOSE OF GIBRALTAR, bird's eye view: on the left the African coast, on the right the European coast. Before the construction of the Suez Canal, the "Columns of Hercules" (facing Abyla and Calpe, the current Ceuta and Gibraltar) constituted the only access to the Mediterranean Sea, which gave them great importance both from the commercial point of view that military. From "La Geografia at a glance", Lithography Corbetta, Milan, 1853.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Spagna

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Creation date: 2018-05-07 18:37:14

object name: 72506

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

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continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RF

subject century: XIX

subject epoch: Ottocento

technique: Cartografia

id: 41365

file name: FSNgilardi_72506.jpg

keywords

SpainOverseas TerritoryEuropeAfricaPeninsula of GibraltarCadizGulf of AlgesirosMediterranean seaTarifaAtlantic OceanCeutageographyStrait of GibraltarGibraltarUnited KingdomUKUnited KingdomRock of Gibraltarexclavepunta de TarifaPunta CiresMorocco