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Put the {{WikiProject Gibraltar}} tag on the Talk page of all Gibraltar-related articlesThe intention is to add the {{WikiProject Gibraltar}} tag to the talk pages of appropriate articles in all Gibraltar-related categories on this page . Expand the number of Gibraltar-related articles Improve the quality of Gibraltar-related articles (see discussion ) Work towards the promotion of Gibraltar-related articles as "Good articles " Create a Gibraltar-related "Collaboration of the Week" -- ChrisO 17:24, 4 March 2007 (UTC) [ reply ]
-- ChrisO 18:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC) [ reply ]
The list of image assets and templates has now been populated on the public watchlist . Next step - improving articles!-- ChrisO 00:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC) [ reply ]
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Proposed Gibraltar-related articles:
Public buildings and amenities Bayside Sports Centre Bleak House, Gibraltar Central Hall, Gibraltar Central Police Station, Gibraltar (images available ) Duke of Kent House Gibraltar Bathing Pavilion Gibraltar City Fire Brigade Gibraltar Law Courts Gibraltar Public Market Gibraltar Savings Bank (206/210 Main Street) Ince's Hall Theatre Joshua Hassan House New Harbours New Mole House (Royal Gibraltar Police HQ) Primary Care Centre Queen's National Theatre Windmill Hill (HM Prison)
Historic buildings Arengo's Palace Artillery House Assembly Rooms, Gibraltar Bleak House, Gibraltar Casino Calpe City Under Siege Exhibition Engineer House Exchange and Commercial Library Governor's Cottage Montagu Bathing Pavilion Moorish Castle (HM Prison)Naval Patrol House Theatre Royal, Gibraltar
Hotels
Moles
Religious Artillery House Catholic Community Centre
Schools Gibraltar Dockyard School Gibraltar Technical School
Unsorted Eastside Project Gala Casino (Gibraltar)
Arts Art of Gibraltar Literature of Gibraltar
Breweries
Events 1969 Gibraltar Frontier Closure 1972 General Strike of Gibraltar Calentita (festival) Calpe Conference Gibraltar Day Gibraltar Drama Festival Gibraltar Fair Gibraltar International Boat Show Gibraltar International Dance Festival Gibraltar International Literary Festival Gibraltar Jazz Festival Gibraltar Song Festival Gibraltar Tercentenary celebrations Three Kings' Cavalcade Visit of the Earl and Countess of Wessex to Gibraltar Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Gibraltar
Film Gibraltar (2011 film) La Roca (2011 film) People of The Rock: The Llanitos of Gibraltar (2009 film)
Food
Bars and restaurants
Philately Gibraltar 10c missing-value error Gibraltar 1925 £5 George V violet & black King George V Gibraltar Stamps: 1912-1924
Television Broadcasting in Gibraltar
Theatre Connie con cama camera en el comedor El Siege El Susto Ince's Hall Theatre La Lola se va pá Londre Luna Benamor Miss Llanita International Theatre Royal, Gibraltar
Beaches and bays Governor's Beach, Gibraltar Little Bay, Gibraltar Sovereign Bay, Gibraltar Western Beach, Gibraltar
Caves Abbot's Cave (Cueva de los Abades) Ape's Den Cave Blackstrap Cave Buffadero Cave Caleta Palace Cave Camp Bay Cave (Parson's Lodge) Catalan Bay Road Cave Catchment Cave Comcen Cave Cousin's Cave Crystal Cavern Cumberland Cave Dead Man's Cave Devil's Fall (North) Devil's Fall (West-Upper) (Crack Cave) Devil's Fall (West-Lower) Doulas Cave Europa Advance Cave Fig Tree Cave 2 Glen Rocky Shelter Cave Goat's Head Cave Gorham's Cave Complex Gunn's Cave Horseshoe Cave Ince's Cave Landport Cave (Leary's Cave) Liddell's Union Fissure Lookout Cave (Hole in the Wall) Moorish Castle Barracks Cave Moor's Cave (Cueva del Moro) Mount Misery Fissure Mousterian Rock Shelter Mushroom Cave Nursery Cave "Operation Monkey" Cave Queen's Lines Cave Reservoir Cave No. 4 Reservoir Cave No. 5 Rifle Dustbin Rock Fall Cave Rock Gun Cave Rock Gun Catchment Shelter Ronald's Delight Rosia Bone Breccias St. Michael's Cave, Lower Lower St. Michael's Cave, Roof Passage Signal Troop Cave Smart's Well Reserve Smith's Cave Smuggler's Cave South Cave Spanish Mine Spur Road Cave William's Cave
Parks Commonwealth Park, Gibraltar West View Park, Gibraltar
Pedestrianised Baker's Passage Bell Lane Bishop Rapallo's Ramp Cannon Lane Castle Steps Castle Ramp Charles V Ramp Chicardo's Passage College Lane Cooperage Lane Crutchett's Ramp Fountain Ramp Fraser's Ramp Gowland's Ramp Irish Place King Street, Gibraltar Library Street Library Ramp Lime Kiln Road, Gibraltar Lime Kiln Steps Lopez's Ramp Market Lane Morello's Ramp New Passage, Gibraltar New Street, Gibraltar Paradise Ramp Parliament Lane Pitman's Alley Road to the Lines Wilson's Ramp
Roads Benzimra's Alley Calpe Road Castle Road, Gibraltar Central Pavillion Road City Mill Lane Cloister Ramp Cornwall's Lane Cornwall's Parade Cumberland Road, Gibraltar Drinkwater Road Eastern Beach Road Eliott's Way Engineer Lane Engineer Road Europa Advance Road Fish Market Lane Flint Road Gardiner's Road Garrod Road George's Lane Green Lane, Gibraltar Governor's Street Halifax Road, Gibraltar Heaton Road Hospital Hill, Gibraltar Hugo Road Keightly Way Naval Hospital Road North Pavillion Road Reclamation Road Red Sands Road Rodger's Road Scud Hill Shackleton Road Smith Dorrien Avenue Sortie Road South Barrack Road South Pavillion Road Spilsbury Road Tank Ramp Tarik Passage Trafalgar Road, Gibraltar Trigge Road Willis' Road Windmill Hill Road Witham's Road
Squares Commonwealth Parade Convent Place Governor's Parade Grand Parade Hargrave's Parade Market Place
Tunnels
Wrecks and diving sites
Detatched Mole The Pilot Boat or Cormorant The 'Inner' and 'Outer' The Cannon Pile S.S Excellence Crest Reef The Italian Chariot
South Mole M.F.V Helen S.S Rosslyn H.M.S Stella Sirius The Bristol Bombay
Rosia area The Mollymock M.F.V Okeanos Seven Sisters El Pipo (Norwegian Trawler) The Inkwell Site
Camp Bay and Little Bay The Seahawk The Ark Site Camp Bay Barges 482M Cable Laying Barge Little Bay
Europa Point Little Europa Drift Europa Reef Los Picos The Sherman Tanks
East Side El Lomo Peter Ives' Pinnacle, El Cortijo Weaver's Pinnacle Source: Phil Smith and Darren Fa. (2004). Underwater Gibraltar City Under Siege Exhibition Exchange and Commercial Library Genoese Guard Gibraltar Dockyard Gibraltar Hippodrome Gibraltar horse-drawn carriages Gibraltar Red Cloak (images available ) Gibraltar Water Catchments Governor's Cottage History of the Indians in Gibraltar History of the Moroccans in Gibraltar History of the Portuguese in Gibraltar History of the Spanish in Gibraltar Jumper's Well Keys of Gibraltar (images available ) List of former Spanish churches in Gibraltar Los Carreteros del Rey Rail transport in Gibraltar (currently a redirect) Seal of Gibraltar Spanish Gibraltar Stanley's Clock Tower Theatre Royal, Gibraltar
Events
Fortifications
Batteries Caves Battery Eliott's Practise Battery Oil Tanks Battery Reclamation Battery
Counterguards
Ditches Landport Ditch Southport Ditch
Magazines
Towers
Unsorted Caledonian Canal, Gibraltar East Place of Arms Glacis, Gibraltar Northern Defences
Organisations Gibraltar Defence Force (currently a redirect) HMS Calpe (1965 shore establishment) HMS Cormorant II (shore establishment) Los Carreteros del Rey
People
Places
Ships
Weapons Bonita Trust Casino Calpe Environmental Safety Group Financial Services Commission (Gibraltar) Gibraltar City Fire Brigade Gibraltar Customs Gibraltar Ivanhoe Charity Society Gibraltar Lions Club Gibraltar Masonic Institute Gibraltar Rotary Club Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau Gibraltar Women's Association Helping Hand Trust Self Determination for Gibraltar Group Voice of Gibraltar Group Your Gibraltar TV
Companies Alfred J. Vasquez (Tobacco manufacturers[1] ) Amars Bakery ([2] ) Bassadone Motors Gibraltar Bus Company Gibraltar Crystal Imperial Newsagent Imprenta Calpense Isolas (Oldest law firm[3] ) Jorge Russo (Tobacco manufacturers[4] ) Lewis Stagnetto (Tobacco manufacturers[5] ) R. Povedano (Tobacco manufacturers[6] ) Sacarellos (Coffee manufactureres[7] [8] Saccone & Speed (Wine merchants[9] ) Triay & Triay (Law firm[10] )
People from Gibraltar Albert Fava (Trade unionist) Alfred Vasquez (Former Mayor , Former Speaker of the House of Assembly ) Arturo Vinuesa Parral (Author) Bernard Linares (Former Govt. Minister) Bryan Zammit (Gibraltar by-election 2013 candidate - Independent)* Carmen Gomez (Theatrical performer, actress and Miss Gibraltar 1970) Charlie Flower (Former athlete) Christopher Montegriffo (Former photographer for the Gibraltar Chronicle ) Clive Golt (Journalist, Govt. Media Director) Colin Ramirez (Footballer) Craig Sacarello (Together Gibraltar ) Dani Fa (Musician, Taxi guitarist) Daniel Ghio (Together Gibraltar ) Danny Bugeja (Musician, Taxi guitarist) Darren Fa (Director of the Gibraltar Museum ) Dylan Ferro (Musician, Taxi frontman) Elliott Phillips (Gibraltar Social Democrats )Ernest Gomez (Chief Secretary) Edward Yome (Comissioner of the Royal Gibraltar Police ) Edwin Reyes (Gibralarian) (Gibraltar Social Democrats ) Erika Pozo (Together Gibraltar ) Ernest Britto (Former Govt. Minister) Ernest Opisso (last hanging for murder, 3 July 1931) Fabian Vinet (Former Govt. Minister) Francis Cantos (Former editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle and Govt. Media Director) Francis Dellipiani (Former Govt. Minister) Freddie Vasquez (Former Member of the Opposition) Freddie Ballester (Gibraltar Social Democrats ) Gareth Latin (President of the Gibraltar Football Association ) George Mascarenhas (Former Govt. Minister) Horace Zammit (Former Govt. Minister and Mayor) Hubert Corby (Former Govt. Minister) Jackie Anderson (Gibraltarian) (Together Gibraltar ) James Giraldi (Doctor, recipient of the Freedom of the City of Gibraltar) James Neish (Journalist, radio & TV presenter) James Netto (Former Govt. Minister, MP) Joelle Ladislaus (Gibraltar Social Democrats ) John Alcantara (Judge, Former Mayor , Former Speaker of the House of Assembly ) John Charles Pons (Independent candidate at the 2019 elections) John Montegriff0 (Together Gibraltar ) Johnny Bugeja (Photographer for the Gibraltar Chronicle ) José Netto (Trade unionist) Joseph Baldachino (Former Govt. Minister) Joseph Moss (Former Govt. Minister)]]Joseph Pilcher (Former Govt. Minister) Joshua Gabay (Former Member of the Opposition) Juan Carlos Perez (politician) (Former Govt. Minister) Kamlesh Khubchand (Together Gibraltar ) Kenneth Anthony (Gibraltarian politician) (Former Member of the Opposition) Lewis Francis (Former Member of the Opposition)Lucio Randall (Former GSLP election candidate) Louis Wink (Former Commissioner of the Royal Gibraltar Police ) Luis Francis Bruzon (Former member of the Legislative Assembly) Luis Montiel (Former Govt. Minister) Maribel Chellaram (Former GSLP election candidate) Mario Finlayson (Artist) Maurice Featherstone (Former Member of the Opposition) Maurice Ramagge (Former Member of the Opposition) Michael Feetham (Former Govt. Minister) Nathaniel Conroy (Dancer, formerly of Stomp ) Nathan Stagno (International hockey referee) Neil Samtani (Together Gibraltar ) Orlando Yeats (Gibraltar Social Democrats ) Petter Cumming (Former Member of the Opposition) Peter Montegriffo (Former Govt. Minister) Richard Cartwright (Gibraltarian) (Musician, Radio & TV Presenter) Richard Garcia (Chief Secretary) (Former Chief Secretary and historian) Robert Mor (Former Govt. Minister & Mayor) Robert Vasquez (Gibraltarian) (Independent candidate at the 2019 elections) Roy Clinton (Gibraltar Social Democrats )Selwyn Figueras (Opposition MP) Siân Jones (Together Gibraltar ) Tamsin Suarez (Together Gibraltar ) Trevor Hammond (Gibraltar Social Democrats )Vijay Daryanani (Liberal Party of Gibraltar )William Gomez (Musician) William Thomson (Gibraltarian) (Former Mayor , Former Speaker of the House of Assembly )
People Associated with Gibraltar Giovanni Maria Boschetti (Italian architect) Frederick Brome (Former governor of the military prison who excavated many of Gibraltar's caves ) José Martín Muñoz (Last hanging)Luis López Cordón Cuenca (Last hanging) Gibraltar by-election, 1991 Gibraltar by-election, 1999 Gibraltar City Council election, 1921 Gibraltar Constitution Order 1950 Gibraltar Constitution Order 1964
Government Bossano Government Cabinet of Gibraltar Canepa Government Caruana Government Chief Secretary of Gibraltar Commissioner of Income Tax (Gibraltar) Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar Gibraltar Borders and Coastguard Agency Gibraltar budget Gibraltar Care Agency Gibraltar City Council (currently a redirect) Gibraltar Culture and Heritage Agency Gibraltar Environmental Agency Gibraltar Finance Centre Gibraltar Government Lottery Gibraltar Housing Works Agency Gibraltar Income Tax Office Gibraltar Maritime Authority Gibraltar national debt Gibraltar Sports and Leisure Authority Gibraltar Tourist Board Gibraltar Treasury Hassan Government Leader of the Opposition (Gibraltar) Minister for Education (Gibraltar) Minister for Enterprise, Training and Employment (Gibraltar) Minister for Environment (Gibraltar) Minister for Equality, Social Services and the Elderly (Gibraltar) Minister for Financial Services and Gaming (Gibraltar) Minister for Housing (Gibraltar) Minister for Justice (Gibraltar) Minister for Sports, Culture, Heritage and Youth (Gibraltar) Minister for Traffic, Health and Safety and Technical Services (Gibraltar) Minister for Tourism, Commercial Affairs, Public Transport and the Port (Gibraltar) Monarchy of Gibraltar Peliza Government Picardo Government Shadow Cabinet of Gibraltar Trilateral Forum of Dialogue on Gibraltar
Law Bar of Gibraltar Gibraltar Heritage Trust Act 1989 Human rights in Gibraltar Nature Protection Act 1991 MV Mons Calpe MV Punta Europa MV Punta Europa II Crown v. Marrache and others Freedom of the City of Gibraltar Gibraltar Award Gibraltar Census 2001 Gibraltar Census 2012 Gibraltar Roll of Honour (currently a redirect) Gibraltar Telephone Directory See /Botanic Gardens
Plaques Which articles are likely to get plaques? Translations here can be used by tourists and locals (This is a work in progress - please add to the list)
Alameda Gardens Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park Apes's Den Bayside Comprehensive School Bristol Hotel Cable Car Catalan Bay Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned Cathedral of the Holy Trinity City Hall The Convent Europa Point Europa Point Lighthouse Explosion of the RFA Bedenham Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque Garrison Library Gibraltar International Airport Gibraltar Museum Gibraltar Parliament Gibraltar-Spain border Grand Casemates Square Great Synagogue John Mackintosh Square King George V Hospital (Gibraltar) Law courts Marina Bay Moorish Castle Napier of Magdala Battery Parson's Lodge Battery Ocean Village Queensway Quay Royal Gibraltar Police Shrine of Our Lady of Europe St Andrew's Church St. Bernard's Hospital St. Michael's Cave Trafalgar Cemetery Victoria Stadium Westside School
Region codeWhen adding coordinates to articles about features in Gibraltar, using {{ Coord }} , the |region=
parameter should be set to "GI".
Recognised content
Featured articlesHistory of Gibraltar
Featured listsGibraltar national football team results List of sieges of Gibraltar
Good articlesEuropa Point Lighthouse Flat Bastion Flat Bastion Road Fortifications of Gibraltar M/V New Flame Military history of Gibraltar during World War II Moorish Gibraltar Ocean Village Marina, Gibraltar Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar
Featured pictures
Did you know (DYK)s... that Prof. Clive Finlayson has theorised that the genetic similarities between neanderthals and humans are not only due to interbreeding but could also originate from a common African ancestor...? ... that philanthropist John Mackintosh left a will allowing the provision of a public trust for the advancement of education in Gibraltar ? ... that naval officer James Coutts Crawford served in three sieges in the American War of Independence , once as part of the besieging forces (Charleston ) and twice as a defender (Savannah and Gibraltar )? ... that Dorothy Ellicott was the first woman to be elected to two different Gibraltar Councils and was posthumously awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour on Gibraltar National Day 2008? ... that in 1939, excavations beneath John Mackintosh Square in Gibraltar for the construction of an air-raid shelter revealed no signs of any foundations , suggesting it has always been an open square ? ... that Juan Mateos was the founder of Gibraltar 's first hospital which remained on the same site and served the people of Gibraltar for almost four and a half centuries? ... that Gibtelecom is the largest telecommunications operator in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and the official sponsor of the annual Gibtelecom International Chess Festival ? ... that all of early 14th century Europe was consecrated under the protection of Our Lady of Europe (statue pictured ) in Gibraltar where devotion has continued for over 700 years? ... that Giovanni Battista Calvi was an Italian military engineer who worked on many important Spanish defensive projects in the 1500s, to include those in the now British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar ? ... that Gibraltar's National Day is celebrated every 10 September by releasing 30,000 red and white balloons (pictured ) which represent the people of Gibraltar ? ... that since 2006, a Gibraltarian no longer needs be a Member of Parliament to become Mayor of Gibraltar ? ... that in 1704 Simón Susarte , a Spanish Gibraltarian goatherd , revealed a concealed path (pictured ) to the Spanish Army which led to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar , so they could surprise the Anglo -Dutch troops based there? ... that Gibraltar 's St. Michael's Cave (pictured ) , prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II , at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year? ... that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel 's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British ? ... that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory ? ... that Gibraltarian degree level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar ? ... that Gibraltar passports are full British passports which are particularly issued to Gibraltarians and only differ in some wording? ... that a statue originally created in 1815 for the The Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Gardens was carved from the bowsprit of the Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno , taken at the Battle of Trafalgar ? ... that the cuisine of Gibraltar includes Maltese , Genoese and Portuguese culinary influences? ... that Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture? ... that news of the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar was reported in the Gibraltar Chronicle a fortnight before it reached England ? ... that in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution , giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom ? ... that Horace Walpole called John Trumbull 's oil-on-canvas The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789 (pictured ) "the finest picture [he] had ever seen painted on the northern side of the Alps"? ... that Mozart never finished his composition for voice and piano to celebrate the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War ? ... that John Singleton Copley 's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings ? ... that the Governor's residence in Gibraltar (pictured ) is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a nun who was bricked up alive into a chamber wall? ... that Thomas William Bowlby (1818 - 1860), a Gibraltar-born correspondent for The Times was captured and imprisoned by the Tartar General Sengge Rinchen whilst on correspondence in Tongzhou , Beijing ? ... that the English Law (Application) Act 1962 ended legal recognition of seduction as a civil offence in Gibraltar?
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