| Saluting Battery | |
|---|---|
| Part of Fortifications of Gibraltar | |
| Gibraltar | |
 by Thomas Colman Dibdin in 1846 | |
  Saluting Battery | |
| Coordinates | 36°07′56″N5°21′11″W / 36.132321°N 5.353068°W Coordinates: 36°07′56″N5°21′11″W / 36.132321°N 5.353068°W |
| Type | Artillery Battery |
| Site information | |
| Owner | Government of Gibraltar |
| Open to the public | Yes |
Saluting Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
The battery was above the Line Wall Curtain in Gibraltar and defended the west side including Gibraltar Harbour. Today the battery has been converted into a promenade. [1] Both Gardiner's Battery and Victoria Battery were higher or retired batteries that fired over the top of Saluting Battery that was on the coast. [2]
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The fortifications of Gibraltar have made the Rock of Gibraltar and its environs "probably the most fought over and most densely fortified place in Europe, and probably, therefore, in the world", as Field Marshal Sir John Chapple has put it. The Gibraltar peninsula, located at the far southern end of Iberia, has great strategic importance as a result of its position by the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean. It has repeatedly been contested between European and North African powers and has endured fourteen sieges since it was first settled in the 11th century. The peninsula's occupants – Moors, Spanish, and British – have built successive layers of fortifications and defences including walls, bastions, casemates, gun batteries, magazines, tunnels and galleries. At their peak in 1865, the fortifications housed around 681 guns mounted in 110 batteries and positions, guarding all land and sea approaches to Gibraltar. The fortifications continued to be in military use until as late as the 1970s and by the time tunnelling ceased in the late 1960s, over 34 miles (55 km) of galleries had been dug in an area of only 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2).
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