Melilla Spanish Morocco
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At departure or passage at this port
Azamara Club Cruises (5 Cruises)
Celestyal Cruises (3 Cruises)
Crystal Cruises (9 Cruises)
Emerald Waterways (6 Cruises)
Emerald Kaia
6 Cruises
Norwegian Cruise Line (4 Cruises)
Oceania Cruises (15 Cruises)
Oceania Allura
11 Cruises
Oceania Sonata
4 Cruises
Regent Seven Seas Cruises (10 Cruises)
Seven Seas Explorer
4 Cruises
Seabourn Cruise Line (16 Cruises)
Seabourn Ovation
16 Cruises
| 28 October | 30 days | One-way from Piraeus-Athens to Lisbon |
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| 28 October | 31 days | One-way from Piraeus-Athens to Lisbon |
450-628-6241
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Silversea Cruises (1 Cruises)
Frequently Asked Questions
At the foot of the city itself. The gangway leads into one of Spain's most unusual architectural ensembles, and both the citadel and the modernist centre are ten to fifteen minutes away on foot.
In Spain. It is a Spanish enclave of twelve square kilometres on the African shore, held since 1497. Currency, language and administration are Spanish, and no special formalities apply to the call.
The historic citadel, standing on a rocky spur above the port and built between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. It reads like a textbook of fortification: bent gateways, bastions, casemates, vaulted cisterns, chapels and small museums in the former military stores.
Chambers cut beneath the ramparts that sheltered residents during sieges. The route ends facing the sea, in full sunlight, through a spectacular opening in the cliff.
Because in the early twentieth century the architect Enrique Nieto, trained in Barcelona in Gaudí's wake, covered the city in Art Nouveau facades: stone flowers, whiplash ironwork, undulating cornices, bow windows. Melilla holds one of Spain's largest concentrations of modernist architecture after Barcelona.
The citadel in the morning, then a wander through the modernist quarter around the Plaza de España and Hernández park. This is a call you walk with your eyes up, no excursion or booking required.
Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus have shared the same streets for generations. Nieto designed the synagogue and the central mosque as readily as churches and apartment blocks. At the school gates, uniforms, kippahs, headscarves and saris pass one another without anyone taking notice.
A blended cuisine where honey and almond pastries, tagines and paellas share the same menus. The cafés are as busy at tea time as at tapas hour.
Yes, dark-sand beaches run south of the citadel and fill with families in fine weather. The city also has a bullring — the only one on the African continent.
On the ramparts. On one side the port and the Mediterranean, with ferries shuttling to Málaga and Almería; on the other the Rif hills closing the horizon. That is where you truly grasp the position of this enclave.
