Catalan Bay is a bay and fishing village in Gibraltar, on the eastern side of The Rock away from Westside.
View of Catalan Bay looking South
Early view of Catalan Bay looking south from the top of the access road - late nineteenth century. The round shaped rock which juts out into the sea is commonly known as la mamela (Catalan: la mamella, the breast), the name given to it by the early Catalan settlers as it resembles a woman's breast when viewed from the shore.
Nineteenth-century painting of Catalan Bay looking south by Thomas Colman Dibdin
Panoramic view of Catalan Bay in 2012 with the Caleta Hotel in the extreme left
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean. It has an area of 6.7 km2 (2.6 sq mi) and is bordered to the north by Spain. The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, at the foot of which is a densely populated town area, home to some 32,688 people, primarily Gibraltarians.
An aerial view
Gibraltar from the air, looking north-west
View of the northern face of the Moorish Castle's Tower of Homage
Shown here during the Second World War, a Douglas Dakota of BOAC is silhouetted at Gibraltar by the batteries of searchlights on the Rock, as crews prepare it for a night flight to the United Kingdom
