Standing on the 16th-century Royal Walls still surrounding the exclave ... While Morocco gained independence in 1956, Spain held onto Ceuta and Melilla. It’s a dispute that still runs deep ...

But it kept Ceuta and Melilla, withdrawing into two ... next to the border wall with Morocco. White flowers symbolizing each of the dead men were thrown into the sea at the spot where their ...

the first two – at Ceuta (in 1993) and at Melilla (in 1996) – of sixteen walls that fence off Europe’s borders today. A six-metre fortified fence funded by the EU, like others put forward in ...

To cross, legally, takes only a few minutes – but the wall between these territories ... crossed the borders of the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla every day, according to Spanish police.

But few places felt it like Ceuta and Melilla, the two Spanish cities in North Africa that face the Mediterranean to one side and Morocco to the other, beyond a six-metre border wall. Prior to ...

Migrants were seen attempting to scale the walls of Ceuta ... In Spain's other North African enclave Melilla, around 300km (185 miles) east of Ceuta, some 30 migrants crossed over in the early ...

“Vox leader Santiago Abascal has channeled Trump by calling for an 'insurmountable wall' along Ceuta and Melilla’s borders and arguing that Morocco should be made to pay for it.” In an ...

Long before wall-building became a showpiece election ... sea route to Europe shifted from Italy to Spain this year, Melilla and Ceuta — another autonomous Spanish city on the Moroccan coast ...

Hungary built a wall on the Serbian border in 2015 ... s southern border – built fences in its enclaves of Ceuta and in Melilla (northern Morocco) to thwart African immigration and smuggling.

Like Melilla, Ceuta was founded in Morocco centuries ago ... Back home, critics spoke of "walls of shame". Ever since the cities have sealed themselves off more securely, refugees have instead ...

On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, BBC Mundo looks at barriers which are still standing - or have gone up since - around the world. At the end of the 20th Century, Spain decided ...