Gibraltar's culture is a stacked one: a 14th-century Moorish bathhouse under a Victorian museum, an Anglican cathedral with horseshoe arches, Genoese shutters over Georgian shopfronts. Three days of galleries, libraries, liturgy and local art on 6.8 square kilometres.
Gibraltar's national gallery occupies the upper floor of City Hall and holds over 100 works by Mario Finlayson, the Rock's best-known painter, alongside rotating shows by Gibraltarian artists. Weekdays 09:30–17:30.
The 1832 Anglican cathedral is Moorish Revival in stone: horseshoe arches, keyhole windows and whitewashed arcades. Damage from the 1951 RFA Bedenham explosion was absorbed into the rebuild rather than erased.
Built on the footprint of Gibraltar's principal mosque and consecrated in 1462, the Catholic cathedral kept the Moorish ablutions courtyard as its patio. The bell tower was rebuilt in 1810 when Main Street was widened.
A 1997 gift from King Fahd, this white mosque with a 71-metre minaret faces Morocco 22 kilometres across the strait. Next to it stand the Shrine of Our Lady of Europe and the Nun's Well, a Moorish cistern.
Behind a plain Bomb House Lane frontage sit the 14th-century Moorish Baths, the Gorham's Cave Neanderthal material and an 1865 scale model of the Rock built for the War Office. Mon–Fri 10:00–18:00.
Founded in 1793 by Captain John Drinkwater so officers had something to read, it holds 45,000 volumes, the bound Gibraltar Chronicle from 1801 onwards, and a walled garden behind the reading room.
Gibraltar's cultural centre since 1964 holds the public library, a theatre used for the Drama Festival, exhibition rooms and evening classes in dance and painting. The foyer board lists the week's recitals.
The theatre is cut into the terraces of the 1816 Alameda Gardens, staging summer concerts and festival performances beneath the Rock's western face. The Dell and the Italian garden adjoin the auditorium.
The Flemish Synagogue of 1799 on Line Wall Road serves a Sephardi community present since the 1720s. Silver Torah ornaments, an inner courtyard and a rebuilt interior after the 1913 fire; one of four working synagogues here.
Consecrated in 1798 and used until 1814, this walled burial ground below Southport Gates holds sailors from the 1801 Algeciras action and the yellow fever epidemics. Two Trafalgar casualties lie here among the oleanders.
The Genoese fishing village on the Rock's east side keeps its own dialect inflection, a painted seafront chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, and beached boats below the water catchment slopes. Bus 4 from Market Place.
A 19th-century coffee-roasting warehouse on Irish Town, now the Rock's literary café: exposed roasting machinery, local paintings hung for sale, and the informal meeting room for Gibraltar's writers and artists.