Melilla is a Spanish autonomous city, located in the north coast of Africa. It has an airport, a port and roads.
In Melilla, there is a national airport, Melilla Airport (IATA: MLN, OACI: GEML), which has a paved runway and a terminal. It has flights to Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga, Gran Canaria and Palma de Mallorca. [1]
Some airlines with Melilla Airport as their hub are: Melilla Airlines, Ryjet, Airmel or Pauknair.
There is a port, with ferry connection to Málaga, Almería and Motril.
There are 28 kilometers of roads in Melilla. 27 of those kilometers are roads with a single lane per direction, and only one kilometer has multiple lanes. There are no freeways (in Spanish: autovía or autopista) in the whole autonomous city. [2]
There are 4 crossing points between Melilla and Morocco, being the most important one the Beni Ensar Crossing Point.
There are no railways in Melilla.
The city of Melilla has 6 bus lines: [3]
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Enrique Nieto y Nieto was a Spanish architect known for his Modernisme style, which he continued to receive commissions to design even after it fell out of favor. He was a student of Antoni Gaudí and followed his master's style when he designed noted projects in Barcelona and Melilla. In 1939, he was appointed city architect of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. Mellila's collection of modernisme-style buildings constitutes the second largest concentration of representatives of the style outside of Barcelona.
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