Headland at Gibraltar’s southern tip with lighthouse, mosque, sanctuary.
Punta de Europa, or Europa Point, is the southernmost point of Gibraltar on the Rock’s tip beside the Strait of Gibraltar. The flat headland holds buildings including the Europa Point lighthouse, Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque, the Catholic Shrine of Our Lady of Europe, military fortifications, a memorial to Władysław Sikorski, and Gibraltar University.
Punta de Europa, also called Europa Point, is a headland forming the southern end of the Gibraltar peninsula and the southernmost point of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory. It lies beside the Strait of Gibraltar, bordering the Bay of Algeciras to the east and the Alboran Sea to the west. The area is generally flat and includes a playing field and several buildings. Important structures at Europa Point include the Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque and the Catholic Shrine of Our Lady of Europe. The headland also features a lighthouse built under Governor Alexander Woodford between 1838 and 1841, later fully automated in 1994; its light can be seen from about 25–27 kilometres and it is the southernmost lighthouse maintained by Trinity House and the only one of theirs outside the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Channel Islands. Other notable elements mentioned include Hardings Battery, the Sikorski memorial to Władysław Sikorski, and Nun’s Well, an underground water reservoir. On clear days, visitors can see across the Strait of Gibraltar to North Africa, including Ceuta and the Rif mountains, as well as the Bay of Algeciras and Spanish coastal cities. Europa Point is connected to Gibraltar’s east side, including Sandy Bay and Catalan Bay, by the Dudley Ward Tunnel.
