Images and metaphors about Gibraltar center around its solidity, its permanence, its strength. The rock of Gibraltar rises out of an otherwise flat landscape surrounded on three sides by water. It can be seen from miles away, looming up out of the mists. The ancient peoples of the region knew it as the 'end of the earth' where the god Atlas held up the world and kept it from collapse. The rock is riddled with caves, which make it easy to defend; the British have occupied the rock since the early 19th century, and the site is a bone of contention between Britain and Spain.

Images of gibraltar and metaphors about it center on the solidity, the durability, the ability to hold up and last.

Here are a number of images gleaned from the web, some of them metaphoric:
1. An image of the Rock looming up out of the mists.

2. Closeup

3. Gibraltar seen from its pinnacle.

4. Use of the Gibraltar name to convey solidity to a hardware company and its products.

5. Gibraltar seen from its harbor.

6. A stylized version of the Gibraltar image used the the Prudential Insurance Company ("like a rock!").