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Gibraltar is a fortress and it's covered in fortifications, but notjust on the outside. in fact gibraltar is honeycomb with tunnels, and there's 44 miles of tunnel inside the rock, which is more than double the amount of roads we got on the outside. so yes, gibraltar is a living fortress. these tunnels, they all connect up, and there are hospitals, there's kitchens, there's a bakery, there's frozen food stores. the plan was to be able to house and caterfor 16,000 and women. 16,000? yes. these rooms used to be the king's regiment headquarters. but one discovery in the 1990s stunned gibraltarian...

So the men wouldn't make any noise while they were living here. this would have been the radio shack. and the latrines. of the six people chosen, there were two radio operators, a doctor, an officer and a signalman. and here we have the remains of a bicycle. and instead of a bicycle chain, it had a leather strap, and that would have provided a means of generating electricity to power their radio. also at the back you can see there is a fan attached to what would have been the back wheel, and the idea was that was going to provide ventilation. the plan was for the men to hide and monitor air tr...

Inside the rock itself, work has been going on which is revealing 1000 years of history, including information on how this place was repurposed as a military h0. gibraltar is a fortress and it's covered in fortifications, but notjust on the outside. in fact gibraltar is honeycomb with tunnels, and there's 44 miles of tunnel inside the rock, which is more than double the amount of roads we got on the outside. so yes, gibraltar is a living fortress. these tunnels, they all connect up, and there are hospitals, there's kitchens, there's a bakery, there's frozen food stores. the plan was to be able...

Than double the amount of roads we got on the outside. so yes, gibraltar is a living fortress. these tunnels ? they all connect up, and there are hospitals, there's kitchens, there's a bakery, there's frozen food stores. the plan was to be able to house and caterfor 16,000 and women. 16,000? yes. these rooms used to be the king's regiment headquarters. but one discovery in the 1990s stunned gibraltarians: the infamous stay behind cave. all to do with an urban myth that was hanging around town ?

And instead of a bicycle chain, it had a leather strap, and that would have provided a means of generating electricity to power their radio. also at the back you can see there is a fan attached to what would have been the back wheel, and the idea was that was going to provide ventilation. the plan was for the men to hide and monitor air traffic on and off the runway, and shipping movements into the med, the bay of gibraltar and the atlantic. this was their only access to daylight. this is a really plum spot. that's why they chose this particular point of view. access here is limited, but throu...