evidence: Tags ceuta melilla morocco plazas de sobierna southern spain [...] 1. Why did Spain feel (and still feel) the need to keep las Plazas de Sobierna? I could understand Ceuta, as sort of a Spanish Hong Kong, and a way to keep tabs on Morocco but Melilla truly irks Morocco, as it is considered as occupied territory there. [...] las Plazas de Soberanía* johnincornwall said: