Denmark Norway London Helsinki Manila Sweden Thailand Estonia Scotland Korea Greenland China Rome Warsaw Spain Gibraltar Berlin Madeira   The Convent Guard House & brass cannons The official residence of the Governor is in an old Franciscan friary, orginially built in 1531 and now known as The Convent. The friars continued their useage of the building until 1728, when the new British rulers finally evicted them fourteen years after their conquest of Gibraltar. From that time onward The Convent has been the official residence of the Governor but it now has more of a Georgian/Victorian era look to it because of repairs that had to be made following various bombardments!