PILLARS OF HERCULES


Meaning of PILLARS OF HERCULES in English

Two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar .

They include the Rock of Gibraltar (at Gibraltar ) in Europe and Jebel Musa (at Ceuta ) in northern Africa. They are fabled to have been set there by Heracles as a memorial in his labour of seizing the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon.

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