Saturday, January 2, 2021, 19:07
Less than half of the island of Cabrera
If we asked ourselves what we know about Gibraltar, most Spaniards would not get a very lucid role. We would of course answer that it is a rock, a kind of giant Pedrusco next to the homonymous street. And also that it belongs to the English for three centuries and that we should definitely reclaim the Spaniards (so in the first person of the plural, as if they would give each other a piece). Already in a scientific plan we would not add that there are monkeys, but we would probably stay there and our heads like the Makaken themselves, so we will better visit this territory that we could call British-Andalusianus so complicated in the time of Brexit. There are 6.8 square kilometers (less than half of the Balearic Island Cabrera) that house just over 30,000 inhabitants. And it is mentioned that, Gibraltar, as a distraction from the Arabian Yabal Tariq, the ‘Monte de Tariq’, in memory of the Muslim general who led the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the seventh century. In ancient times his name was Monte Calpe.
The Makaken and their legend
And indeed, in Gibraltar there are monkeys: about 200 copies, shameless and uprising, which form the only wild population of these animals throughout Europe. More specifically, these are Berber Macacos and said that the first chronicler of Gibraltar, Alonso Hernández del Portillo, which can be considered ‘the true owners’ of the rock. During the majority of the twentieth century, the United Kingdom has entrusted its care to the army, which appointed a ‘guardian of the monkeys’ to update the reports of dead and births (which were published in the ‘Gibraltar Chronicle’ newspaper, Dean of the Rock Press) and supervising the diets of the animals. The legend wants the day that these primates disappear from Gibraltar, the British will lose control of the territory: in case, in 1942, Churchill ordered to remedy a hurried situation in which only seven monkeys were left behind. The Gibraltareños are awaiting their macaques: a few weeks ago the ‘Chronicle’ reported that a lion killed one of the copies that were sent to a ‘Safari Park’ Scottish.
Tipás and Piperías Land
Gibraltareños has developed a border and hybrid culture that includes their own language: Llanito is a mix of English and Spanish that is sometimes unable to be incomprehensible to speakers of both languages in their most conventional version. His vocabulary is enriched with terms of the Genoese, Hebrew, Arabic, Maltese and Portuguese, as a result of the human and commercial crowds that characterized the history of the rock. The idiomatic syncretism of the Llanito has resulted in words such as’ piperías’ (that is to say blowjobs, adapted from the English ‘pipes’),’ tipá ‘(teapot,’ tota ‘) or’ confronted, paying, something like ‘affords’), as’ Souvenes’ as a sparkle as a SOUVVENVEN PERVENDEN. There is a discussion about the word ‘Llanito’, which, according to some, comes from the flat people who inhabited the rock, because the nobles feared that the pirates operated in the area, and according to others it is a diminutive of Johnny, ‘Johnnito’, the name of Resource to refer to an English.
55 kilometers of tunnels
Gibraltar measures about five kilometers long, but has 55 kilometers of tunnels, which is more or less twice as its open -Air traffic network. Most are related to the strategic importance of the rock, which in the twentieth century was the scene of a feverish excavation to accommodate thousands of men with weapons, ammunition and food. Moreover, the country that was extracted from the mountain had to get surface to the sea and build the airport. A large part of the tunnels has civil use today and are very good to illuminate the storage problems of merchandise in the rock, very similar to those who live on a small floor.
