Friday, February 8, 2013

Real Photo Postcard of Gibraltar

 Greetings from Gibraltar

featuring:
The Rock from Bay.
main Street.
South Port Gates.
Moorish Castle.
The Rock form Airfield.
and
Eye View of Town.

This is a real photo postcard postmarked in 1950 with two King George VI stamps.

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A Few Fun Facts about Gibraltar:

-Gibraltar consists of a long limestone mountain, which has as may as 140 caves.
-The official language of Gibraltar is English and the unofficial one is Spanish.
-There is a Gibraltar Cable Car which runs from ground level to the top of the Rock, with an intermediate station at Apes’ Den.
-Over 500 different species of flowering plants grow on the Rock.
-Gibraltar is the only place in Europe where the Gibraltar candytuft (Iberis gibraltarica) is found growing in the wild; the plant is otherwise native to North Africa.

 

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