Melilla
Melilla is an autonomous Spanish city located in North Africa, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Morocco in the north. It covers an area of 12 km2. It has a fortress (Melilla La Vieja), built between the 16th and 17th centuries, equipped with warehouses, cisterns, bastions, moats, forts, caves, mines, chapels (one of them the only Gothic religious structure in Africa), and hospitals. This makes it the most complete city on this side of the Mediterranean, apart from the neo-medieval exterior forts built during the 19th century. The city's architectural heritage, located in the so-called Ensanche de Melilla, is considered one of the best examples of the Spanish modernist style of the early 20th century.