Moat of the royal walls of Ceuta

Ceuta

Ceuta

On a bay, the fortified city of Ceuta has been a lookout for the Strait of Gibraltar since ancient times. The walled enclosure presides over the old town of this cosmopolitan Mediterranean city.Since ancient times, the strategic location of Ceuta has attracted different civilizations. Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths, and later Arabs and Portuguese occupied the city for commercial or military purposes; it eventually chose to become a part of Spain. 

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