Chas' wall

You may recognise this wall from the pre-title sequence of "The Living Daylights", where James Bond pursues an assassin escaping in a Land Rover.

It was built in 1540 and strengthened in 1552 by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V principally to defend the South from the Barbary pirates.

I walked down the upper section from the crest of The Rock. It zigzags down at 45 degrees in four stages so that defenders can provide flanking fire to each face.
The monkeys are very possessive - one small one tried to grab me - and even bite tourists. Watching how visitors crowded them and backed them against walls poking lenses in their faces, I do not blame the monkeys. I felt like biting too.Read more