A relatively recent landmark near the urban center of Ceuta, the 23-foot-high bronze "Columnas de Hércules" statue by local artist Ginés Serrán-Pagán comes from the legend of the Greco-Roman mythological Hercules, who in fulfilling 12 labors used his labors to split a mountain in two, creating the Strait of Gibraltar, flanked by the Rock of Gibraltar at a southern mountain in North Africa, said to be Ceuta´s Mount Hacho (although another candidate is Morocco´s Jebel Musa,14 miles west of Ceuta).

David Paul Appell