Gibraltar history

Newly restored O’Hara’s Battery at southern end of the Rock of Gibraltar reopens for visits

VISITORS to O’Hara’s Battery at the top of the Rock of Gibraltar will be greeted with a more interesting and interactive experience after it reopened on June 21. The Ministry of Heritage said it had commissioned ‘restoration and maintenance works to enhance aesthetics and visitor experience’ of the historical gun and site. The Upper Rock […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …


Unique Gibraltar exhibition marks 80 year anniversary of Allied North African invasion

GIBRALTAR marked 80 years since Operation Torch, when British and US forces retook North Africa from Nazi Germany, with a unique exhibition. The Gibraltar National Archives helped set up the exhibition from its own material at Orange Bastion, next to the American War Memorial on Line Wall Road. General Eisenhower, who later became US president, […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …