THE CAMPO DE GIBRALTAR IS CLOSER TO LONDON THAN TO MADRID - EL CAMPO DE GIBRALTAR ESTÁ MÁS CERCA DE LONDRES QUE DE MADRID
THE CAMPO DE GIBRALTAR IS CLOSER TO LONDON THAN TO MADRID A geographical, historical and cultural truth By Juan Jesús Ladrón de Guevara There are statements that sound like provocations but turn out to be simple truths. This is one of them. In 2026, a passenger boarding a flight at Gibraltar Airport can land in London in under three hours. That same passenger, if attempting to travel to Madrid from Algeciras by train, would first discover that there are no trains, and then, if there were, that the journey would take between five and six hours. The distance between Algeciras and Madrid is just over six hundred kilometres. The distance between Gibraltar and London is nearly fourteen hundred. And yet London is closer. Not in kilometres, but in everything that matters: time, connections, ties and history. This is not a paradox. It is the logical consequence of three centuries of neglect. A Region Looking Towards the Sea The Campo de Gibraltar has never truly looked towards the ...
