Status: Active — post-opening update. The UK–EU treaty covering Gibraltar was signed on 14 July 2026 and began provisional application on 15 July. Routine immigration and customs checks ended at the La Línea–Gibraltar land frontier that morning. This page was originally published before the change; it has now been rewritten around what happened, what the…
Every working morning, thousands of people walk or drive across one of the busiest land borders in Europe, clock in on a two-and-a-half square mile peninsula, and come home at night to a Spanish town that costs half as much to live in. If you work on the Rock, La Línea is the obvious place…
The single best piece of advice for visiting Gibraltar is one nobody at the border will tell you: do not drive in. Leave the car on the Spanish side, in La Línea, and walk across. You will save yourself a queue that can swallow an hour of your day, and you will park for a…