Travel journalist Rick Steves writes about visiting Gibraltar. Most of the article is a bit fluffy and superficial but there are a few interesting points.

I knew, for instance, that it would have a unique legal status based on its geography, but I had no idea about the Anglican Church there.

Along with being “not Spanish,” the colony is part British and part Gibraltarian. They have the big three-pronged English electrical plugs, their own currency (it’s the pound sterling — but, like Scotland, they have their own version), and their own Web domain (gi). Gibraltar’s Anglican Church is proudly “headquarters of the Anglican Church in Europe” (not very centrally located for the business of administering that vast parish).

The extent that Britain and the British Empire are celebrated there is interesting to me as well. Maybe it is just a gimmick to lure tourists, but the fact that the residents have chosen to remain British seems to suggest that the affiliation is significant culturally as well.

Old England seems to permeate the island. As we drove high above the port, my taxi driver pointed down to a tiny breakwater and said, “That’s where they pickled Admiral Nelson after the Battle of Trafalgar.” (While the Brits won the battle, Nelson died, and, according to legend, his body was preserved in a barrel of spirits for the trip back to London.)

The complete article on CNN.com: “Got married in Gibraltar near Spain”