Pomponio Mela, el geógrafo romano de Algeciras Curiosity · Algeciras, Campo de Gibraltar, Cádiz Image of Algeciras, not of the place itself. The Wikipedia article on Algeciras identifies as a native of the city Pomponius Mela, a 1st-century Roman historian and geographer, author of the treatise "De Chorographia", one of the earliest known geographical descriptions of the ancient world. Photo: User:Zenwort (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Algeciras