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The history of Ceuta is a celebration for the traveler through time and the senses. More than 300,000 years ago, the first human settlement in Benzú dates. To discover the cultural, historical and natural singularities of the City and its surroundings, you have to go to the sea. The navigations of the classic towns and their commercial routes; Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, always within the borders of Mare Nostrum, show the need to control the so-called Circle of the Strait, moved by commercial or geostrategic reasons as is the case of the installation of a dromones base by Justiniano I ( year 534 AD). Christianity and Islam always traded in our bay, with the immemorial presence of Hebrew communities in a Medina that came to have a considerable extension and importance in the context of the Islamic West. The arrival of Islam to Ceuta is later than that of the peninsula. It will remain under Muslim rule for seven centuries being conquered on the evening of August 21, 14...

The gastronomy of Ceuta is very rich because it is very influenced by the variety of culture and religion that we discussed in the previous section. Its main dish is mackerel, since it is a common fish is the waters of this, is so well known mackerel in Ceuta that its name is mackerel. The 10 most common dishes that you can not miss if you come to Ceuta are: picadillo soup, Santa Helena vinegar anchovies, Ceutí-style snails, Moorish chicken, rabbit in almond and apple sauce, red mullet with asparagus cream and lemonade of lombarda, cod confit in brunoise de ratatouille, chuparkia and moroccan pastela.

Tourism is based on the mixture of culture is the main attraction of the city and its natural places full of tranquility, such as the beach or the marine park The Royal Walls of Ceuta are a line of fortification in Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish city in north Africa. The walls date to 962 in its oldest part and the most modern parts to the 18th century. Monte Hacho is a low mountain that overlooks the Spanish city of Ceuta, on the north coast of Africa. Casa de los Dragones or House of the Dragons is an important landmark in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Africa, and an extraordinary example of eclectic architecture. The house is on a corner of Kings Square.  

These four religions are Christianity and Islamism which are the most abundant and in a lower percentage the Hindu and Hebrew. That is why in this city you can enjoy the different religious holidays such as Christmas, Holy Week, Eid Fitr, Eid Al-Adha, Diwali, Dasehra, Pesach, Sukkot ... Here you have some photos of the sacred places of each of the previous ones:

They are fragmented territories or loose territories with respect to the central nucleus of the country, in this case the peninsular Spain. Its main geographical feature is Mount Hacho, formed by an anticline. The rest is an isthmus that links the Hacho with the African continent and an island known as Santa Catalina Island. The climate of Ceuta is of subtropical / mediterranean type, characterized by the softness of the temperatures and the irregularities in the precipitations. The annual average is 18.8 C.

They say that in one place in the world there is a city as small as an island embraced by Africa, that loves to swim in the waters of the Mediterranean and has the path that reaches the moon. He also has a woman lying in the arms of his prince charming, but maybe it's not his and that's why he does not wake up. Whoever fights is wanted, and in the walls of Ceuta after so many wars is the most beautiful place to sit with your partner. That however small it may be, to live four religions in 18.5 km² is possible, that paella and couscous can be mixed at lunch, and still have a space for a kosher. Yes, that's right, this is the noble, loyal and very faithful city of Ceuta.

Ceuta was never Morrocan. The kingdom of Morocco was born in the 50s coinciding with the indepence of the country, during the twentieth century was Spanish-French protectorate, the city was already more than 100 years linked to Spain. A city of union three cultures: Christian, Jewish and Islamic which has left its mark on its urban architecture, its gastronomy and its customs.