Catalan Bay

View of Catalan Bay inwards the morn looking North from the Caleta Palace Hotel.

Catalan Bay (Spanish: La Caleta) is a minor bay as well as line-fishing hamlet inwards Gibraltar, on the eastern side of The Rock away from the original city.

History
Historically, Catalan Bay had been populated past times Genoese fishermen who were business office of a much larger settlement designing along the eastern coast of The Rock during the 17th as well as 18th centuries. In the 18th century Genoese was as well as then widely spoken inwards Gibraltar that regime notices were too published inwards this linguistic communication (alongside English linguistic communication as well as Spanish). Genoese was spoken inwards La Caleta good into the 19th century, dying out inwards the early on decades of the twentieth. There has been or as well as then news that the British may convey mixed upwards Catalans with Genoese simply it is past times no way clear why they would endure such a confusion particularly since at that topographic point is other show which demonstrates that the British were perfectly aware that the residents of La Caleta were Genoese: the orders for the siege of 1727 hollo to this bay equally the Genoese Cove as well as the numerous 18th as well as 19th century census tape large numbers of people born inwards Genoa, non inwards Catalonia.

During the nineteenth century alone fishermen were permitted to alive inwards Catalan Bay. They were required to convey a line-fishing permit granted to them past times the Governor as well as alone a express number of permits were issued. The families who alive inwards the hamlet today are mainly descendants of these Genoese fishermen, as well as are colloquially known equally caleteños

Present
The beach at Catalan Bay, is the minute biggest sandy beach inwards Gibraltar. It is really pop with both Gibraltarians as well as tourists, as well as tin oftentimes snuff it overcrowded during the summertime months.

Catalan Bay is abode to the Caleta Palace Hotel, a number of restaurants (specialising inwards fresh seafood) as well as the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows. The statue of Our Lady of Sorrows is carried to the beach each September when the Bishop of Gibraltar blesses the ocean inwards what has snuff it the village's original religious festival.

To the northward lies Eastern Beach, Gibraltar's largest as well as around pop sandy beach. Beyond Catalan Bay to the due south is the nearby beach of Sandy Bay, where from 2002 the coast route ended due to the closure of Dudley Ward Tunnel for security reasons, alone reopeing inwards slowly 2010.
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