History of Ceuta, attractive autonomous city of Spain

The city of Ceuta is one of these places full of attractive corners and spaces for discovering to only a few kilometers of the Spanish territory. Probably the reputation of the autonomous city as tourist destination is still not the one that his streets and miscellany of cultures would deserve.

A very interesting way of penetrating into the territory native of Ceuta of simple form can be taking a bus for an excursion of one day from the Spanish coast. This trajectory assures stops in the square of Africa, to the edge of his bay, Torch winds next to the mount and in the cove of the Desnarigado.

This first capture of contact, it serves to take from him of above any type of prejudice that it could have loaded in the rucksack before beginning the trip. Once relaxed and arranged for the relaxation, a cup of some of the teas strong and full of flavor, it opens the appetite to go out in search of more.

It is in this moment, when it is perceived, in all his intensity the influence of the Spanish and Arab crossbreeding, in the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, and the finished meaning of this by-name of La Perla of the Mediterranean.

There attracts attention the architecture of the Spanish colonial epoch, intermingled with the Arab traditional constructions of this type of territories. White walls, narrow streets and small squares, each of them with your own ambience of intimacy that calls to the rest and the conversation with the nearby smell of the sea.

The cultures miscellany is evident to every step, finding in the way churches, mosques, synagogs and even a Hindu temple, still living all of them and with its own religious community.

The archaeology of Ceuta continues the same line of miscellany and diversity, understandable bearing in mind his privileged strategic position. Medieval houses, Arab baths and basilicas tardorromanas are more than strokes of his importance along the history.

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