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Despite its mythical name, few tourists venture to Casablanca. The economic capital of the country has, a priori, any of these monuments which charm the visitor. It seems too modern, too buzzing. Symbol of modern Morocco, that is written here part of the future of the kingdom. But this role of the future metropolis, Casablanca has always been. In the twenties, the White City was a formidable laboratory of urbanism. She keeps this time one of the finest collections of Art Deco architecture that can be discovered. Simply look up to see a dome decorated with friezes, or a game of air columns. In the center, the area of Anfa, on the ledge or in the medina of Habbous, the city reflects the dreams of architects. Casablanca, a city between all consumerist, was decorated by the will of the king of a beacon for believers. Hassan II Mosque, designed by an architect French, leaves the presence in size than in Mecca, but the refinement of its interior in place at the forefront of the great achievements of the Muslim world. Explore Casablanca. 1-walks downtown. the lover of Art Deco architecture will discover one of the finest ensembles of the 20s. The medina, which is the end of this walk, has little value and the atmosphere is not always very pleasant. 2-cornice. After the visit of the Hassan II mosque, one will discover the side of the seaside town with its cafes along the ocean, and the strange marabout Sidi Abd er Rahman before returning by Anfa, the residential area. 3-to the neighborhood of Endowments. This walk to a neighborhood created from scratch in the 20's will appeal to lovers of architecture and urbanism. Living Casablanca. Casablanca is noisy. Just fire it is green all the cars honking. Traffic is also particularly dangerous. But Casablanca is also a modern and dynamic city far away from the traditional images of Morocco. Casablanca instructions. the center, which articulates around the squares of Mohamed V and UN, can be visited on foot. Other walks require the use of a vehicle. Motorists and pedestrians, beware of traffic. Be avoided, For example, unintentional starting to green lights, one red light away from you guard a bus arriving at full speed. Program. One day may be enough to get a good overview of the city. But architecture buffs will gladly spend an extra day. 1st day. The morning will be spent visiting the city center and the mosque Hassan II. It will then go to the Corniche (Ain Daib), where you can see the marabout Sidi Abd er Rahman (about 3 km after Ain Diab). Back in the Anfa district. Day 2. Morning visit the outlying district of Habbous. then lunch at the port before proceeding through the medina and a thorough visit of the city center. Casablanca in history. Anfa. This site, now residential area west of the city, seems to have been known to the Phoenicians in the sixth. it has been lived at a time anterior well, as evidenced by several remains of Paleolithic industry and the "man from Casablanca," discovered in 1955 in the career of Sidi Abd er Rahman. The site is named after the Arab occupation anfa avce became the capital of the Berber kingdom of Berghout, Kharijites of obedience. In the twelfth the kingdom was conquered by the Almohad Sultan Abd el Mou'men. It retains its port functions. El Idrissi geographer Roger III of Sicily, as quoted Anfa airport of loading grain cargo. Corsair of the Portuguese coast. Prosperous small town, has at Anfa XV. Corsair bringing a fleet race ka in European waters, especially in Cadiz and the Portuguese coast. In 1468 the Infante Don Ferdinand of Portugal at the head of an armada of 50 ships, led a punitive expedition which led to the bag of Anfa. Forty years later, "fustes" privateers Anfa are active again, unleashing another punitive expedition in 1515. Casa Branca, Dar El Beida. Sixty years later the Portuguese, already well established in Mazagan (El Jadida), investing in rebuilding Anfa and the tonic as the Casa Branca. Anfa appears to mid-eighteenth as a military outpost protecting the road Mazagan, harassed by the incursions of neighboring tribes. The Portuguese abandoned after the earthquake of 1755. Around 1770, Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah is the ruins and give it the name Dar El Beida, literal translation of the Portuguese name "White City". Casablanca. The main remnants of the city, particularly the Grand Mosque and Sidi El Borj Kairouani date from the time of Mohammed III At the end of the eighteenth, the English merchants were given permission to settle. they adopt the name of the city while translating it. Dar El Beida becomes Casablanca. But we are still far from the city an international dimension In 1830, the bar has only 600 inhabitants. The birth of the port. The real growth of the city, whose port activity is non-existent during the first decades, since the middle of XIX. increased European demand for grain product and textile raw material will lead to the installation of several French traders in 1850. But it was England who established the first consular representation 1857, followed by Spain in 1861 and France 1865. Promoted by the development of steam navigation, which makes easier access to open water port, Casablanca now offers scheduled with Europe. The population of 8000 inhabitants in 1860 reached 20,000 inhabitants in 1907. The port of Tangier and Casablanca supplants becomes the largest in Morocco. The French arrived. From the beginning of the century, the growth of traffic makes it necessary to create a modern port infrastructure. The work is entrusted to a French company in 1906. A year later, incidents on the site lead to the massacre of nine workers and the blockade of the Consulate of France, they serve as a pretext for military intervention Lyautey and French Henri Prost. The Resident General in Morocco (1912 - 1925) aims at the end of World War I to the administration and the development of the protectorate. He favors economic growth of Casablanca, who became the first active center of Morocco. With the urban architect Henri Prost, he decided the main options for its urban development. It has two high points corresponding to the urban plans of 1916 and 1946. The dramatic increase since the thirties has continued since Independence. Casablanca today. A young city. Since these crazy years, Casablanca has grown quickly, too quickly. The town of 20,000 inhabitants at the beginning of the century has continued to grow. The dynamism of the city, individualism developers and land speculation were Because the principles set "Mosaic of cities which have their faces individuals, their specific atmosphere, their morals and their picturesque figures," said Ahmed Sefrioui. The image is fair, although reflecting poetically contrasts that can be mounted in a more raw. They often turn violent between the luxury shops of downtown and suburban slums interminable between the businessman he forced to blow the horn of a passage to steal his Mercedes mirage city, came to swell the world daily in search of alms or work. Between rigor and modernity, between Islam and Westernness, synthesized Casablanca contradictions of the kingdom. A dynamic city. Casablanca is now home to nearly one-seventh of the Moroccan population and holds nearly all the vital activities of the country. The development of the port and the city go together. receiving of goods and raw materials, it draws to itself the main interest of the country and provides the manpower to operate them. Nursery framework of Moroccan and foreign businessmen, the city is the seat of the big banks, business, society and economy of the country offices, and major multinational companies. This attraction causes an imbalance in relation to the development of the rest the country. The government tries in vain to limit the region Casablanca economic investments representing nearly 50% of those carried out throughout the state during the year 80. Ultimately, food processing, metallurgical, chemical and textile jobs in the tertiary sector and provide trading, despite the concern for unemployment often too heavy, work in a population that has the best financial Benefit of Morocco, but pays more in return 50% of taxes levied on them. The Downtown. Restless and noisy, the center of Casablanca offers a remarkable architectural unity. This becomes clear from the beginning of this Drive contemplating the United Nations Plaza, designed by Joseph Marrast. Over the streets and avenues, we systematically rise to the head to see it from there, a column, a cantilever, a frieze. Not really buildings that stand out, but a succession of bars that are one of Casablanca's Art Deco sets the best preserved of the world. Departure: United Nations Plaza. Time: 2 pm to 3 pm; allow 30 minutes more with the visit of the medina. On the role of the UN, the administrative center of Casablanca, is the most harmonious architectural ensemble of the city. it was designed in 1920 by architect Joseph Marrast. The volumes are punctuated by a series of arches and accented by the use of a white stone that brings a colorful shade on white walls. An illuminated fountain, on the west side, working on weekends. The next este Square is bordered by the courthouse, which a porch gives access. On the right, the consulate of France is above the statue of Marshal Lyautey, by Fr Cogné 1933. She was once a center of the square. To the south lies the prefecture, north of the Post building (designed by Adrien Laforgue) Deep in the place of the UN, the Rue Abderrahman Sehraoui leads directly to the park of the Arab League. Park of the Arab League, built in 1918, continues a pleasant green area. It is above all the north spire of the former Cathedral of the Sacred Heart qu'éclairent concrete trellises. Built in 1930 by Paul Tournon, it is no longer used for worship today. The Casablanca Art Deco. many buildings of this period are in an area between the Avenue Hassan II Boulevard El Meskini and Boulevard Mohammed V. Of the former Sacred Heart Cathedral, cross the park of the Arab League to take the left Avenue Moulay Youssef. Beautiful Art Deco buildings rise on the Avenue Hassan II on the edge of the park. Continue on the Boulevard Alber Reitzer, that extends the boulevard from 11 January. Reached the intersection with Avenue Lalla Yacout, we can take a right then turn left onto the Boulevard Hassan al-Saghir. Again on the left follow the Boulevard Mohammed V with the central market where many florists. We'll see still many buildings of this period throughout which includes the boulevard, with the Avenue of the royal army, shops, hotels, restaurants and cafes most luxurious in the city. Just before getting up the UN, the Rue du Prince Moulay Abdallah has, too many swing Art Deco. Mohammed V Square, at the edge of the old medina and the modern city is the hub of the city around which the main arteries are ordered according to a plan radioconcentric. Underpass domed, due to the architect Zevaco, ease the passage. Most large hotels and airlines are in the area, particularly in the FAR Ave. North, towards the port, the Boulevard Felix Houphouet Boigny has many souvenir shops. Reach the Old Medina crossing the Avenue des FAR behind the Hyatt Regency, to reach the boulevard Tahar El Alaoui which follows the route of the ancient wall. It's actually an artery usually narrow, very busy and lined with many small shops selling all kinds of items. The old medina is partially surrounded by ramparts of the sixteenth and new ones constructed to obscure the view to customers of the Hyatt. It forms a tangled maze of streets which contrast with the modern buildings of the city today. For those who have seen other old towns, that they're not the most interesting. It is essential not to walk the night the day, we must be careful if you are alone. It succeeds in the new gate, Bab Jedid, also known as Bab Marrakech, which opens onto a small shady square and adorned with fountains. From there, the street el Afia enters the medina by the district Tnaker. We turn left at the end of the funds to engage in the Rue Sidi Fatah, which crosses the street Tnaker. You can see on the right, the church Buenaventura, founded by the English in 1891. This leads to a front garden, which is taken up on the right street Sour Jédid soon reaching the little square of Sidi el Kairouani. Here lies the shrine of Sidi el Kairouani erected in the early nineteenth in honor of this holy personage of XIV, a native of Kairouan, the first patron of the city. To the left of the square Scala is a former stronghold of XVIII. or to be discovered pools the marina and fishing port. Continuing beyond the Rue de la Marine, which passes the mosque Ould el Hamra, then straight down the Rue de la Douane which remains parallel to the walls and the Boulevard Almohad, we arrive at the square of Sidi Bou Smara where Kubba this is the marabou and a small cemetery in the shade of a beautiful banyan tree that forms one of the most charming corners of the medina. Through this plot to escape through an archway, you come rue Dar el Makhzen where you notice the mosque Dar el Makhzen or Great Mosque, built by Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah. Passing between the Dar el Makhzen mosque and the square of Sidi Bou Smara, one joined to the este Boulevard Felix Houphouet Boigny. Cornice. The Hassan II mosque faces the ocean on which it was partially built. This new flagship of the Faithful, a masterpiece of Islamic art, was designed by a French architect and built by thousands of craftsmen. After the dive into the world of Arabian Nights, it will run along the ledge that gives the town its white appearance resort. Continuing along the seafront you will discover a marabout, very popular with tourists Moroccans but forgotten. Finally we will return by Anfa, the chic. Four very different images of the metropolis. Departure: Hassan II mosque. Duration: 2 h 30 3 h after 1 h at least for the mosque Hassan II, then an hour to the ledge where we s'aretera a drink, then 30 minutes to the marabout and another 30 minutes to return to the center. Transportation: By car or bus No. 9 The impressive Hassan II mosque, which advances to meet the ocena, is surrounded by a vast plaza that can accommodate 80,000 worshipers. Extending on a 9ha site, of which two thirds were taken from the sea, it was designed by French architect Michel Pinseau. it took the work of thousands of artisans from Safi, Marrakech and Fez, and nearly six years in group Bouygues to complete. At the top of the minaret, 200m high, a laser beam up to 30 km indicates the direction of Mecca. The Hassan II mosque, follow the Boulevard Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah, which extends from the boulevard the Corniche. We go first to the El Hank lighthouse, built by the French in 1905, before winning Ain Diab, popular resort of Casablanca, who come in numbers on weekends and evenings. Of all the hotels, restaurants, cafes and swimming pools which follow, we can notice the restaurant La Reserve, built in 1933 by architect George Renaudin. This futuristic building, built on concrete piers, advances on the ocean like a flying saucer. Continuing along the beach about 2 km, can be seen on the right of the marabout Sidi Abd er Rahman, a village perched on a rock in the ocean, it does at low tide and undermining. About thirty people living in the romantic place devoid of electricity, where one has a beautiful view loquée Casablanca and Hassan II. Since Ain Diab, retrace his steps to turn right onto Lido Boulevard. We won the residential district of Anfa, dotted beautiful villas surrounded by gardens. It is here that took place in 1943, the Casablanca Conference, historic meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and General de Gaulle. Turning left onto the boulevard Alexandre I extended the Boulevard d'Anfa and the Avenue des FAR, we find instead Mohammed V. To the district Habbous. The main advantage of this walk is in the medina of Habbous that will enthrall fans of urban planning. Conducted from 1923 to absorb the slums, it was quickly occupied by wealthy Muslims who considered him an authentic medina. In fact, with its squares, shops and arcades, it is much more charming than the old medina. Access: the height of the United Nations Plaza, turn right onto Boulevard Paris then on the right of the Boulevard January 11, extended by the boulevard or Lahcen Ider. Then follow the street left Hadj Amar Riffi. Length: 10 km walk around by car have at least 2 hours depending on traffic. Through a residential area, it soon runs royal palace in Casablanca. From this palace, which adjoins the district Habbous, we will not see street lights in the style of Napoleon III and guns out of the walls. This palace was built in the 80s. Just after, turn right toward the Place Moulay Youssef from which you can visit on foot the new medina. The new town or district is a Muslim neighborhood Habbous narrow alleys made from 1923 to absorb some of the slums from agglomerate around the metropolis. This district was designed by architect Edmond Brion. In a carefully constructed, embellished by streets and squares that surround and overlap of stone arches, it has taken with its souks, artisan shops and souvenir shops, the face of a traditional medina. We notice some interesting buildings, such as the Pasha Mahakma located along the Boulevard Victor Hugo. Completed in 1952, the building served as a court official Muslim and living in the Pasha of Casablanca. The decoration, rich plaster artistically worked, was inspired by North African traditional architecture. the mahkama is separated by the place of my mosque, the mosque of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. can still be seen near the mosque Moulay Youssef, high in the center of a square surrounded by arcades. Take the car to continue on the Boulevard Victor Hugo and follow beyond the park Murdoch Avenue right of 2 March which led to the roundabout of Europe. Left the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, powerful mass of concrete, was built between 1953 and 1956 by architect A. In England and engineer Zimmer. Since Our Lady of Lourdes, Boulevard Mohammed Zektouni, left, then the Avenue Hassan II, at right will join the United Nations Plaza. To see more in the region: Azemmour (83 km), El Jadida (99 Km), Kasba of Boulemane (132 km), Mohammedia (28 km) from Casablanca. 1-From Casablanca to Meknes by Khemisset (257 Km from the S106, asphalt and little traffic). Variant quite picturesque Casablanca Rabat Meknes axis. Casablanca Boulevard exit by Ibn Tachfine and follow the direction of Tit Mellil and Meknes. 55 Km: Ben Slimane, the center of a rich agricultural region on the edge of the cork oak forest of Ziaida, market on Wednesday, September moussem around the marabout Sidi Slimane. 82 Km: After crossing the beautiful valley of Wadi el Bagration, panorama right on the mountains of the country Zaer. 86 km Sidi Bettache, village and marabou on the old track imperial Rabat Marrakech, in the bit of cork oak Ziaida. 96 to 104 km: good run through the valley of Wadi Korifla. 122 Km: Rommani Important market on Wednesday, September moussem. Follow the direction of 6 km from Rabat and turn right. Km 159: Col du Kaour, 400 m altitude 165 km: Maaziz. 200 km: Khemisset. Km 257: Meknes. 2 - From Casablanca to Marrakesh by the country Rehamna (234 Km by road P7). This route, which does interest other than allowing to quickly earn the prestigious capital of the South, through the main production centers of phosphates. Exit by Casablanca Avenue Moulay Hassan I and brahim Roudani Boulevard toward the airport Mohammed V. 7 Km: leave the right road to El Jadida and continue to Berrechid. 66 Km: Settat, is the economic center of Chaouia, plain little uneven between the mouth of Bouregreg, that of the Oum er Rbia. You can see in the center founded around a kasbah in the seventeenth by Moulay Ismail. There was a step on his trips from Fez to Marrakech. At the entrance of the city, for road S105 casbahs of Boulaouane. Km 114.5: Bridge Oum er Rbia flowing here between gypsum hills where grow the tamarisk. The route then crosses the plain of Rehamna, steppe lands quartzose and schistose little cultivated. 136 Km: Benguerir in the middle of a barren steppe; market on Tuesday. It then crosses the plain of Bahira where the marshy depression of Sedd el Mejnoun. According to Leo Africanus, was the sixteenth fish a large lake surrounded by woodland and good hunting. Km 197: Sidi Bou Othman, Hamlet almost two Koubbas among old wild jujube. This is where Colonel Mangin won a victory in August 1912, which allowed the French army to enter Marrakech. Beyond Sidi Bou Othman, the road crosses Djebilet, "Small Mountains" by a neck at 650 m altitude. Km 223: A bridge built around 1170 during the reign of Abu Youssef Yacoub, spanning the Oued Tensift. Km 224: left the road around the palm grove of Marrakech. Km 234: Marrakech.

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Tangier (Arabic طنچة Tandja), is a city of northern Morocco

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History it relies on Greek mythology, the city of Tangier was founded by the giant Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gaia, and its name to Tingo (or Tinga!), wife of the founder. Antaeus was his strength in contact with the earth, Hercules strangled him in the air now. The tomb of Antaeus is a hill near Tangier, Charf. Its unique geographical position and strategic, was long a place of Tangier lust where several successive civilizations and cultures.

After a Phoenician presence, which remain two small cemeteries, the city was actually founded in the fourth century BC by the Carthaginians, who made a counter (Ting). In 146 BC the fall of Carthage, the city is attached to the Mauretania and became a Roman colony (Tingis) related to the province of Spain. Tangier is so important, it becomes, to the third century, the capital of Mauritania Tingitana. In the fifth century, Tangier was occupied by the Vandals. Released during the reign of Justinian, in the early sixth century, it was attached to the Byzantine Empire.

General Moussa Ibn Noussair Umayyad interest in Tangier for its strategic position and it is there that 711, will begin the conquest of Spain by the troops of Tarik Ibn Ziad, who Gibraltar, among others, Its name (Jebel Tarik the mountain of Tarik). During the five centuries after the dynasties of Morocco, Arabs from Egypt, Tunisia and Spain dispute the sovereignty of Tangier. Idrissids the masters of Volubilis, the Umayyads of Spain, are competing on it for over a century. In the middle of the tenth century, the Fatimids of Tunisia to extend their authority. In 1075, the Almoravids become masters until 1149 when the city passed the Almohads. It enfeoffing himself to Hafsids Tunis before becoming Merinid in 1274.

After three attempts and three failures, the Portuguese seize it in 1471 and occupied it for a century after which the Spaniards seize it, to lose it soon in favor of Portugal, before being ceded to Britain in 1661 as a dowry given by Catherine of Braganza to her husband Charles II of England. Moulay Ismail in 1679 (Empire Cherifien Alawites) laid siege to Tangier, which it abandoned in 1684, Charles II decided by considering its occupation by British troops unnecessary and too costly.

Following the assistance provided by the sultan Abderrahman the Algerian emir Abd El-Kader, the French launched Tangier on a reprisal raid led by Prince de Joinville, who bombed the city in 1844 and dismantle the fortifications.

The European rivalries for control of the city, door ajar on Morocco, starting in the late nineteenth century. France, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany multiply diplomatic and trade missions to place their pawns putting the city at the center of international rivalries. In 1880, the Madrid Convention attempts to define the relationships between major powers over Morocco. Driven by the Chancellor Bulow who hears recall case, sensational, that Germany will not allow itself to shelve and that France can not change the political status of Morocco without the authorization of a new Conference International, William He arrived March 31, 1905 the imperial yacht Hohenzollern in Tangier for several hours and denounced following a meeting with the Sultan's uncle, described the French and English on Morocco, causing a diplomatic crisis. In 1906, the Algeciras Conference redefines the positions of each in Africa, recognizing the independence of the sultan and affirming the equality of the signatories in the economic field. In 1923 negotiations led to make an international zone. On 24 July 1925, the final status of Tangier is signed by the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Holland, the United States, Portugal, EU Soviet and France, which Italy would join later.

The city now has its financial autonomy. It adopts the international administration, particularly of a legislative assembly, composed of thirty international officials appointed by their respective consuls and nine Moroccans.

In June 1940, after the French defeat, the English Nationalist troops occupied Tangier and allow, in March 1941, the installation of the German consulate in Mendoubia (Mendoub residence) where the Nazi flag fleet. In March 1944, Spain is from the German consulate Mendoubia before removing, October 9 1945, its troops from Tangier to regain its international status.

The April 10, 1947, Sultan Mohammed V, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay Hassan (the future Hassan II), delivers the first speech in Tangier, which refers to a unified and independent Morocco attached to the Arab nation. In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the conference Fedala (October 8 to 29) makes Tangier in Morocco. A royal charter maintains the freedom of exchange and trade until 1960, when the Moroccan government abolished the tax benefits and Tangier is left with a status similar to that of other cities of the kingdom. To avoid leakages of capital, The port of Tangier has a free trade zone.

Tangier is backed by the foothills of the Rif and is located in one of the many bays in the Strait of Gibraltar in the north of Africa, facing the edge of Europe, it is the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea in a bay between Cape and Cape Spartel Malabata.

renowned seaside resort, and fifth largest city in Morocco after Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, Marrakech, Meknes and Tangier's population approaches 650 000 inhabitants.

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The Wilaya of Tangier has an area of 1195 square kilometers, of which 863.3 km ² Prefecture Tangier-Asilah and 331.70 km ² for the Prefecture of Fahs-Beni Makada, created in April 1997.


Economy
Second industrial center after Casablanca, the industry is diversified: textile, chemical, mechanical, metallurgical and naval. The city currently has four industrial zones both have a free zone status (FreeZone the Tangier Free Zone and port). The infrastructure of the city of the strait is important: a port manager, the flow of goods and passengers (more than one million passengers per year) including a marina and fishing port.


The railway station Railway connects the city with Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech in the south and with Fez and Oujda to the east. The highway has been operational since the summer of 2005 and connects Tangier to Fès via Rabat (250 km) and Settat via Casablanca (330 km). The international airport is IBN BATTOUTA 15 km southwest of downtown.

important seaside resort in Tangier has various tourism and hotel infrastructure, defining a bay in the downtown east side and stretches over 7 km, and a medina (old city) which is developing a business crafts (leather goods, wooden articles and silver, traditional clothing and shoes ...).

The city of Tangier is becoming a hub of commercial maritime traffic with the construction of the Tangier Med port, which aims to facilitate maritime commerce. The city is experiencing an exodus galloping other cities and regions of Morocco, which has quadrupled its population in two decades (1 million inhabitants today against 250 000 in 1982) and allows the emergence of semiconductor devices poor neighborhoods south of the city where infrastructure is lacking.

The years 2007-2008 will be special for the city of the Strait because of the completion of major projects under construction, in this case the second port Tanger-Med and its industrial areas, a stadium of 45,000 seats, a business center, tourism facilities, development of the city center and the construction of new lines motorway and railway.

Agriculture in the region of Tangier is tertiary and mainly cereal.

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Quieter as Casablanca, Rabat is a city comfortable and airy, open ocean. Behind the walls of the necropolis Chellah the cackling of thousands of birds replaces the roar of the engines. In the alleys of the casbah of flowering Oudaïa, the bustling city seems so far away. The capital of the kingdom, devoid of any industrial activity, is the second largest city. Rabat, however, has all the attributes of a capital, at least in the vicinity and along Avenue Mohammed V. It must Lyautey to have been chosen as the administrative center of the country, recalls that the allocation of ministries in the vicinity of the Embassy of France. In memory of this prosperous period that the tomb of Mohammed V, father of Hassan II and restorer of national sovereignty, was high symbolically near the Hassan Tower, the ruins of the mosque in this distant predecessor. The visit of Rabat will be complemented by that of his former rival. Salty, separated only by the estuary of the Bouregreg today administratively incorporated into the capital. Explore Rabat Walks 1 - The Medina. This short walk leads through the shopping areas where most of the bazaars. It mainly join the casbahs Oudaïa. 2 - The kasbah of Oudaïa and museum Oudaïa We walk forward in the Andalusian garden flowers and alleys of the town preserved. It lingers its Moorish cafe to enjoy the view over the river and Salt Bouregreg before visiting the museum. 3 - The Hassan Tower and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V. This site is worth visiting for the minaret of the mosque, built in the twelfth century and the tomb of w Hassan II. 4 - Necropolis Chellah. It forms one of the most romantic of Morocco. In its wild gardens, gaze breaststroke valley of the wadi. Storks claquettent on towers and necropolis' s élancent above the ancient Sala whose ruins are still searched. 5 - The Royal Palace, the Archaeological Museum and the new town. We will pass before the royal palace before visiting the museum. archaeological. Finally on the Promenade shopping avenue Mohammed V. Rabat map. The Moroccan art. The museum Oudaïa together a fine collection of costumes, jewelry, carpets, etc.. Ancient and contemporary. The Almohad architecture. The door Oudaia, Bab er Raouah and Hassan tower are superb specimens Memories of antiquity. Roman remains have not Chellah power evocative ruins of Volubilis and Lixus but the archaeological museum houses a remarkable collection of bronzes. Flowers and gardens. If a contest was held in Morocco, Rabat receive the first prize of flowers. The broad avenues crossing. the modern city, small gardens around the villas in residential neighborhoods, Andalusian style garden of the kasbah Oudaïa, exuberant flora and semi wild necropolis Chellah finally the beautiful exotic gardens of Sidi Rabat Bouknadel contribute to the city of flowers. Living Rabat. with its avenues and its cafes, its many gardens and the sea always near. Rabat is a city where life is good. City of embassies and ministries, Rabat has many officials and people are much less stressed than those in Casablanca. It exudes an atmosphere almost provincial, unique to Morocco. Rabat manual If you hurry, you can go Chellah mausoleum, the Hassan Tower, the Kasbah Oudaïa and Museum archaeological. Ideally, if one has a day is to leave his car at the hotel. We will follow up the walks through the new town, the medina and kasbah Oudaïa off, then taxi to the Hassan tower, the mausoleum of Chellah and the Archaeological Museum before returning on foot to the center of the city news. This solution avoids backtracking. A half-day programs. Car ride to the casbahs Oudaïa, which we discovered the door, the museum, the gardens and the Moorish cafe, then we will see the Hassan Tower and the cemetery Chellah. We end with the archaeological museum for its collection of bronzes in Volubilis. A day. Morning visit of the medina and kasbah Oudaïa; we can have lunch overlooking the ocean. In the afternoon we will drive to the Hassan Tower and the cemetery Chellah and archaeological museum before to take a stroll through the modern city. Two days. The second day exploring the nearby town of Sale (morning). Then stroll through the exotic gardens of Sidi Bouknadel, or it may continue until the kasbah of Mehdia and Mehdia-Plage. Flap in history The ancient city. The excavations have unearthed Chellah a city dating back to at least the third century av. AD. Probable landing point of Phoenician sailors and Carthage, she struck, the late 1st century av. AD, coins in neo-Punic legend. It seems that it enjoyed under the kings of Mauritania, a measure of independence. Cited as the names of Ptolemy and Sala Sala Colonia in the Itinerary of Antoninus, the city was probably occupied during the reign of Claudius before becoming a municipality under Trajan, and later be elevated to colony. Ribat in Rabat. In the eighth century extended not far from the present site of the city, the territory of the Berbers Berghouata, followers of heresy kharidjite. This led naturally to the tenth century, establishing a fortified monastery, or ribat, or warriors of orthodox Muslims, who have more than one trait in common with the Templars, had run for several centuries the holy war against Berghouata. The first Almohad capital. It is probably around 1146, after the fall of Fez, Abd el Mou'men became master of the country. Taking quickly realize the value of the position of ribat and the nearby town of Sale to a kingdom whose capital was Marrakech, he began to develop the ribat a kasbah fortress with a palace where he stayed at repeatedly. It was now the fulcrum of the camp gathered or the mujahideen, the fighters of the Faith, departure and return of campaigns in Spain. His grand-son, Yacoub el Mansour, dreamed of making it his capital. When he died in 1199, it had already raised a large compound and mosque, which remained unfinished, including the Hassan Tower is the largest memory. Ribat al Fath, designed according to a plan too ambitious, dwindled after the death of its founder and was reduced to the size of a small town. After the struggles between Almohads Merinides and lean they attempted to lift it (construction of the mosque and the necropolis of Chellah), the city continued to decline: Leon Africanus in the sixteenth century, the reduced to a hundred words houses inhabited. Salé-le-Neuf and Salé-le-Vieux. The arrival in 1609 of Muslim refugees from Spain, the Andalusians, caused an initial renaissance of the city. Among them, a large contingent of Hornacheros (from Hornachos), helped the sultan Moulay Zidan saadien to consolidate his throne. The newcomers, joined by other Andalusians, occupied the site of present-Medina, known then as the Sale-le-Neuf, as opposed to Sale-le-Vieux is on the opposite bank of the Bou Regreg. State living piracy. Hornacheros Andalusians and instituted in 1627, a curious republic under the name Republic of Bouregreg. The current kasba Oudaïa took the place of capital. A boss elected for one year, assisted by a council, presided over the destinies of this strange little state living piracy and occupying his leisure in continual struggles between triangular Andalus, el Hornacheros Dirty Old people. Piracy procured for the republic all its resources. The money raised in Spain by Hornacheros allowed them to equip a large fleet and their thirst for vengeance did the rest. European renegades came to join them, as the Dutchman Jan Janssen, best known for his formidable achievements as the Morat Rais. Pirates but traders. English and Portuguese vessels were at first the only victims of this war and then running it like the pirates of Algiers, Saletins attacked all ships. They ventured into British waters and even in the vicinity of Newfoundland. France and England had particularly suffered from this aggression, especially as their port almost inviolable and virtually impregnable casbahs rendered useless demonstrations naval retaliation. The European powers preferred to negotiate. A merchant from Marseilles, Pierre Mazet, installs in the city since 1626, it was the first "consul of the French nation." Somewhat paradoxically, moreover, the power Europe does not reluctant to trade with Saletins selling them even need weapons and ammunition. The annexation of the Republic of Bouregreg the Kingdom of Morocco in 1666 did not change the order of things. A Governor Alawi came just watch the boss and conducting operations on behalf of the sovereign. Despite the reprisals, piracy does not hang as late as the reign of Mu-y Abd er Rahman. His final act will be in 1829, the seizure of a ship in Austria. modern capital of Morocco - The attempt of Sidi Mohammed ben Abdullah to create a new city within the old Almohad wall proved a failure. According to Louis Chenier, Andre Chenier's father, Consul of France from 1767 to 1782, she was already in 1781, five years after its construction, a heap of ruins. But the palace will be frequent by the sultans. This is where taking place, in 1845-1846, the negotiations with the French government. Rabat chosen by Lyautey in 1912 to be the country's administrative capital and seat of the General Residence. The decision of the Sultan Moulay Youssef settle there, in a palace built on the site adopted by his ancestor Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah, was to give that choice is final. 1 - The Medina Stalls tin, carpets and leather drive this more medina, peace and less picturesque than that of Salé. Duration: 40 min Departure: crossroads of Avenue Mohammed V and Avenue Hassan II - The wall of Andalons, long straight wall reinforced by towers, limit the Medina South. Its name comes from the Andalusian or "Moriscos, Muslims expelled from Spain by Philip III in 1609-1610, who built in the seventeenth century * At 200 meters from the Avenue Mohammed V, on the left., Is Bab el Had, the door [Market] Sunday. Redesigned in 1814 by Moulay Slimane, it opens onto the boulevard Amar Ibn Yasser between two mighty towers pentagon. This gate, one of five openings in the city, is famous for being in the nineteenth century, where the sultans were the heads hang from the rebels. The former Almohade relied on the door was probably completed in 1197. She grew more than 5 km. Much remains well preserved .* Passing through the wall of the Andalusians, turn immediately right onto Souiqa. - The street Souiqa is the main artery of the medina. One would spawn more or less easily through the crowd, between two rows of small restaurants and shops, especially food and hardware. In the past, plastic, tin and manufactured goods is increasingly replacing the more traditional crafts. You'll notice right After crossing the Rue Sidi Fatah, one of the entrances to the mosque Monlay Slimane, founded in 1812 by the Sultan of the same name. Farther to the right, into a small street in Bab bringing Chellah, three arches, which once allowed to reach the basin, called attention to an old fountain Merinid, now occupied by a bookstore . Two series of blind arcades keystone pending framing the foundation inscription that gives the Sultan Abu Fares Abd el Aziz (1366-1372) the construction of this small monument. - The mosque, founded probably at the same time, the date in its current state of a virtual reconstruction Total 1882. The minaret, square, is decorated with berries whose arches are highlighted by arches at the top. The coronation was added in 1939. - Rue Souk es Sebat, covered, extending the street Souiqa. Is the neighborhood of leather goods, fabric merchants and bazaars, fearsome traps for tourists not accustomed to bargaining, but where you so kindly invited to come "for your viewing pleasure! It should then turn left into the Rue des Consuls. - The street leads to the Consuls left after the covered part of Souk es Salt is, with the previous two. The most active of the medina. It is lined with tailor shops, cloth merchants and carpets. You can attend the morning sale at auction. On the right of the old open fondouqs. The street was, until 1912, the compulsory residence of representatives of foreign powers. It noted, moreover, on the right lane or the consulate of France Louis Chénier, the poet's father, lived from 1767 to 1782. - This street leads to the site of Souk el Ghezel (Wool market). The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Christian captives were presented to prospective buyers. On the right. is the kasbah Oudaïa. - Overlooking the site of Souk el Ghezel, the little street Hajj Daoui can dig into the maze of alleyways of the medina. It covers an area which is quiet contrast to the bustling shopping streets of the old city. The houses, which sometimes span the roadway, are bent on their inner courtyard, a door only to frame more or less carved open to the world. Can be reached by the street That el Hammam, rue Sidi Fateh. - The mosque of Moulay el Mekki, based near the tomb of the marabout death in the eighteenth century, was enlarged in 1907. It is distinguished by a sculpted door awning and a ceiling painted in an arch spanning the street. Further, the leaves on the street dr. hen the zaouïa Sidi Aissa and joined the mosque Moulay Slimane, shortly before the wall of the Andalusians. - From Place Souk el Ghezel, can also return to the Avenue Mohammed V, following the Boulevard El Alou, which borders part of a vast cemetery between the Medina of the Coast. Shortly before Bab el Alou, Mohammed V Street left many shops and lined with restaurants, continues up the wall of the Andalusians. 2 - The Casbah and the Museum of Oudaïa Alleys flowery garden Andalusian and Moorish Café offer close to the medina an oasis of tranquility. We will enjoy strolling through this village from where the view over the ocean and Salé. Duration: 1 30 pm to 2 am Check out: instead of Souk-el-Chezel. Note: three very nice restaurants, two on the beach and near the last platform. - The walls of the kasbah Oudaïa, except the area around the Andalusian garden, dates back to the Almohad period. Rubble, thick and 2.50 m high 8 to 10 m, it is provided with a walkway. It was partly reinforced in the seventeenth and eighteenth century The southern part, before the stairs instead relies on a bastion heptagonal still equipped with old guns. It was built by Moulay Rachid st between 1666 and 1672 to increase the defenses of casbahs primitive. The tower with canted, we noticed a Shortly before the monumental gate of Oudaïa is an addition or reconstruction, probably of the seventeenth century, when Hornacheros took refuge in the Casbah to withstand the Andalusian medina. The door-Oudaïa, built of red ocher, seems to have had a mostly decorative role. It may also, in this respect be regarded as one of the jewels of Almohad art. Its construction is attributed to Yacoub el Mansour, who wanted to make Ribat el Fath its capital and would have added to the wall of Abd el Mou'men. She served perhaps close to the palace reception hall and court. A Muslim author, Mohammed bou Jendar, designates as the "gallery of stately palaces." The carved decoration, repeated on the interior façade, is sober and well balanced. The spandrels decorated with floral decoration is framed by an inscription in Kufic script, now very worn. At birth scalloped arches, we notice the serpentine pattern, rare examples of representations of animals in the Moroccan style. The cemetery-el Alou, left 1y door, is the subject of a "pilgrimage" once a year in honor of Lalla Kasba, in which young girls ask a good husband. Jamaa Street [the main form artery of this quarter. It covers the location of the convent-fortress X "s and ribat Almoravid, which is nothing left. With the exception of houses, it is difficult to date, most of the remains back the twelfth century, and the remainder in the days of the Republic of Bouregreg and first Alawite rulers. Jamaa el-Atiqa is the oldest mosque in Rabat. Founded by Abd el Mou'men in 1150 and revised several times It was largely rebuilt during the reign of Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah (1757-1797) by an English renegade, Ahmed el Inglizi. The minaret, decorated with blind arches, is probably the work of one of the first rulers Alawi. - The platform of the old semaphore at the end of the Rue Jamaa left side offers a beautiful ocean view over the estuary Bouregreg and Salé. At the foot of the platform, a circular tower of the eighteenth century and sqala, fort built in 1776 by Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah, defended the estuary Bouregreg. On the site, a warehouse built in the late eighteenth century by Moulay el Yazid has a cooperative or we will see young girls weaving rugs Resume Jamaa Street and turn left onto Laalam. - The tower of pirates was probably added in the seventeenth century Almohade At the foot of the rampart, the Mdoura plan is a work of high circular in the nineteenth century Grids unfortunately prohibit access to the tower. Back on the street and down Jamaa. Street Bazzo you take on the g. in the Djemaa street, down a flight of stairs to the Cafe Maure. - The Moorish Café, with its benches covered with mats, folders decorated with mosaics, open to wind and 1'ocean. Enjoying a gazelle horn accompanied by a mint tea, you can let your gaze wander over the upper parts of the kasbah, the Almohad walls and the mouth of the river that separates Rabat from Sale. This coffee, despite its fame, remains a favorite of Rabat. -The garden is accessible through a door Café Maure. This haven was created in 1915-1918 in the style of Andalusian gardens with alleys perpendicular flowerbeds storied, its traditional waterwheel and its exuberant vegetation. - The Museum of Oudaïa can be reached by exiting through an arch in the higher part of the gardens and turning immediately to the right. The museum, renovated in 1995, is housed in a tall building by Moulay Ismail, probably between 1672 and 1694. Sultan lived in this house during his visits to Rabat. The building has a courtyard with porticoes, adorned in the center of a cauldron marble and surrounded the main building on all four sides. A tower that dominates the entire completed a small mosque, preceded by a covered court today, and a steam room you will see mainly carpets, illuminated manuscripts, costumes, various types of pottery, a Moroccan interior of yesteryear with its sofas covered in gold brocade and silk made in Fez in the second half of the nineteenth century Other pieces of embroidery are presented in showcases. Urban art par excellence, embroidery offers from one city to another r variations in the choice of plants or zoomorphic motifs geometry as in the tissues, son, and points of their employees. -Leaving the museum Or you can visit the handicraft center. Turn left out of the Casbah, the center is a hundred meters down below on the left. This is a complex, modern or work a few partisans (copper, embroidery, leather work ...); possible purchases. - To reach the beginning of the next walk, we must walk along the river for about twenty minutes. Along a broad avenue, the ride is hardly attractive (and may even be trying in the heat) will better take a taxi. The Wharf Marsa al, runs along the port, frequented only by boats (which provide such pedestrian traffic to Sale). Access is indeed hindered by a phenomenon bar. The dock goes below the burj Qadiya Lalla, near the shrine of the same name or pilgrims returning from Mecca were spending the night before returning home. 0n reaches the end of the wharf at Borj Sidi Makhlouf, which builds the wall of the Andalusians. The Borj Sidi Makhlouf, early XVI named after a small shrine nearby, right. coast of the former Jewish quarter, the Jewish quarter, which was transferred to this place by the Sultan Moulay Slimane, in 1808. Sidi Makhlouf, Jewish origin, converted to Islam and came to deserve the veneration Muslims through his piety and miracles he performed. He repeated, say, the miracle of Moses by splitting the waters of Bouregreg to allow a student who wanted to test him, to cross on dry ground. .... 3 - The Hassan Tower and Mohammed V Mausoleum The tomb of the father of independence stands opposite the Tour Hassan, a former minaret of a mosque built in the twelfth century : A symbol. Duration: 1 / 2 hour to visit the two monuments. - Hassan Tower is the minaret of a mosque built on the orders of Yacoub el Mansour. It was after the Friday Mosque in Samarra (Iraq), the world's largest Muslim. Company probably before 1195, its construction was abandoned after the death of its founder (1199). Subsequently, the inhabitants of Rabat there prélevèrent materials; the earthquake of 1755 the abyss again. In 1956, Mohammed V returned from exile led to the first Friday prayers after the independence of Morocco. The mosque itself was bounded by four walls, mostly fallen, pierced with sixteen gates: four in North and East, two in the south., Six in the West. It covered with its annexes, an area of 183 m by 140. It included a large Court, housed above the deep tanks (restored) lying at the foot of the minaret, and a huge pillared hall with 312 columns and 42 marble pillars were arranged to form nineteen ships, not counting the side porticos. Hassan tower, whose kinship with the famous Giralda in Seville and the Marrakech Koutoubia appears at first glance, is a square tower of 16.20 m square and 44 m in height. If you compare the proportions to those of his binoculars, we can assume that the measure would double. The walls are not less than 2.050 m thick. Inside, the stairs are replaced by a ramp of 2 m wide and gentle enough to be climbed on horseback. Six small pieces, Vaulted each differently, are staged in the central core. The outer surfaces of the minaret are decorated in the classic manner, with arches and tracery, but the arrangement of which varies on each side. At the foot of the tower, two large staircases descend to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, established in the area of the mosque. A pavement strewn with modern columns, strangely reminiscent of those Buren Palais Royal in Paris, established a link between these vestiges of a glorious era and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V. - Commonly known as the mausoleum of Mohammed V whole complex of buildings which includes the mausoleum itself. Completed In 1971, the monument surprised by the bias of classicism who has presided over its design and decoration. This masterpiece of Moroccan traditional art that is painted wood, plaster and marble carved, chiseled bronze. The design of this ensemble, performs on a concrete reinforcement, is caused by a Vietnamese architect Vo Toan. In the center, topped by several rows of tile roofs, green stretches the mosque whose white stone facade opens with multiple arches on an inner courtyard. To the left of it, the mausoleum itself is preceded by two flights of stairs that lead to the monumental marble qubba Italian white, which stand in front of the royal guards in white and red bunting. The sarcophagus of Mohammed V, in a block size of Pakistani white onyx, is centrally located on the lower level of the building, while his son, Prince Moulay Abdallah (d. 1983), is placed in angle. Toured a gallery upstairs, which are suspended under the flags of cities of Morocco. A gorgeous ribbed dome, formed by assembling pieces of carved mahogany and stained glass made by the factory of Saint-Gobain, covers the whole. The large gilded bronze chandelier weighs about 1.5 t. - The right of the mosque, offsetting the mausoleum, a colonnade of arches in white Carrara marble, finely carved crown a building which was to host a museum devoted to the Alawite dynasty but for some mysterious reason, has not yet emerged. 4 - The Necropolis The Necropolis Chellah Merinid Chellah includes two sites: the burial itself and the ancient city of Sala. All of these ruins, with thousands of birds, storks and wild vegetation, forms one of the most endearing of Rabat. Access: located outside the walls, about 2 km from the center, it reaches preferably by car, for example during a walking tour encompassing the previous one. Hassan tower, just follow that bypass the city boulevards Duration of tour: 1 hour - The door, though ornate and opening flanked by an arc of towers, not the purity of the buildings analogues1 Almohad period. Inside are old guard posts and the remains of an inn. Decumanus Maximus the major route of the city, was released at the bedside Capitoline temple which overlooks the north side a secondary path, paved with large flagstones. Along this street, twelve deep shops formed the ground floor of buildings, probably private, high on a series of terraces. It was also found the base of the monumental gateway which led from the forum and Decumanus Maximus NE - The necropolis Merinid Chellah. We visit first the zaouia crossing gate in front, slightly left of the road. Leaving a bare room first, we get into the left passage Zawiya is very worn but charming with its storks perched on the minaret. It is still to some earthenware polychrome decoration, but that of the lantern are recent bill. In the courtyard, a long pond was once surrounded by a portico with columns and capitals of marble. Back opened the cells, except in the South or was a small oratory. Mohammed would pray. There was a time when it was enough to make seven times around the mihrab to deserve the title of hajj, yet reserved for pilgrims who made the trip to Mecca. The mosque of Abu Youssef Yacoub (XIJle century) is in the center of the necropolis. Beside its minaret in the ruins, we see the tomb of Abou el Hassan, "Sultan Black" (1331-1348), decorated with a beautiful canopy of stalactites. Outside the SE corner of the mosque remains the tombstone of Shams ed Douha, the "Morning Sun", a European convert, wife of Abu Hassan el 5 - The Royal Palace, the Archaeological Museum, the This new city walk Eclectic is a measure of royal dimensions of Dar el Makhzen. Beside, the center seems reduced. There is however enough to charm with its wide avenues, its animation and its nonchalant cafes and is fun to linger. For lovers of old stones, visit the Archaeological Museum in Rabat is the logical complement to the site of Volubilis. Departure: Necropolis Chellah; you take the car or a taxi to go quietly, with a few detours, the Archaeological Museum, it can also be reached directly by the Avenue Yacoub Elmansour (4 km). Duration: 20 minutes to tour the Royal Palace and the door Zaer; Archaeological Museum asks himself at least 30 minutes. - The gateway to Zaer is just opposite the necropolis Chellah. This gate, one of five entries of the enclosure almoha (twelfth century), was restored in the eighteenth century Its decor is very simple, is a series of voussoirs alternately recessed and projecting, which highlights the entrance opening. It is protected by two square towers. Internally, it consists of a series of barrel-vaulted rooms, arranged so that they provided an offset arrangement, as in other works in the Almohad wall. - At the height of the door Zaer, turn left in Boulevard Moussa Ibn Nossair, then the right towards the Royal Palace, completely hidden behind large walls. "The first royal palace was founded in the late eighteenth century by Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah. Another was erected in 1864 by Sidi Mohammed ben Abd er Rabman. The current Dar el Makbzen extends its buildings at the bottom of a huge Mechouar surrounding a particular speaker. It includes a modern palace, a mosque, or mocked Friday, a shopping area and various government buildings. If the king has palaces in most major cities is generally where he resides, surrounded by nearly 2000 people. - The mosque el Faeh, located opposite the Royal Palace hosts, especially for Friday prayer, a continual ballet of limousines which are on board the dignitaries of the regime. - The courtyard of the barracks of the Royal Guard extends in the extension of the avenue. The public is admitted to the ASIST ceremony of sending the colors. Turn left onto Avenue Moulay Hassan to take a look i Bab er Ruach. - Bab er Rouah the door of the Winds, is the most beautiful of Almohade. Through its proportions and decoration, it reminiscent of the kasbah Oudaïa. Opening between two bastions, the entrance opening is decorated with interlacing,, swags, floral arabesques and large shells, ground fairly common on the monuments of that era. Encompassing all, a banner with inscriptions in Kufic character repeated a verse from the Koran. Retrace his steps through the Avenue Moulay Hassan. - The grand mosque jama es or Sunna. Its minaret, which dominates everything. Rabat, was built in the eighteenth century by Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah. The building has been restored several times since then. - The Archaeological Museum is located at 23 rue Brihi, crossing the street Ifni, opposite the hotel Chellah. The museum is housed in a building built in 1932 by Adrien Laforgue. It contains collections from excavations in various sites of Morocco, from prehistory to modern times. His interest lies mainly in the bronzes found at the sites of Volubilis and Lixus Banasa. Ground floor On the floor, reconstruction of a mosaic with geometric decoration of Volubilis. In the center, marble statue of Ptolemy, discovered during excavations of Sala. This son of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene reigned from 25-40 AD. He was assassinated on the orders of Caligula. In the patio, right of entry, lapidary collection: two tectonic fragments arc, altars, stelae and bases listed, funerary chambers. In the niche of the staircase, marble torso armor from Volubilis. In displays, collections evoke prehistoric discoveries made during various excavations. We note in particular the molding of the burial of an adult and a child, from the Neolithic site (3980 approx. BC) El Harhoura II. The upstairs gallery Sala-Chellab site. The first four windows evoke the history of the ancient site of Sala through pottery, oil lamps, etc. ... It will be noted especially in the first leg of a rider showcase bronze dore and a small bust of Juba II. People of the Paleolithic and Neolithic The oldest evidence of human presented on Moroccan soil were made by the discovery of fossilized human remains from the Palaeolithic through to Mougharet el Alyia, near Tangier. Populations of the time sensed, it seems, many analogies with the Neanderthals. Several other discoveries, Sidi Abderrahman, Casablanca, Ain Fritissa, Saidia, show the extent of this settlement. As for civilization duneolithique, the most beautiful relic of the stone circle is Mzora, it lasted almost until the historic period, and that with his techniques for making weapons and tools, religious beliefs, customs funeral . "From Rome to Islam." In the next window you will see an altar table Early Christian decorated with the monogram of Christ, a Byzantine incense burner, a bronze lamp with a reflector in the shape of a candlestick with seven branches and ivory statuette depicting the Good Shepherd. Christianity appeared in Tingitana towards the end of the third-century and here as elsewhere, marked the end of ancient society. The best-known tribes of Berbers is that of Christianity bucket whose descendants retain their religion and Latin language until the late eighth century Islamic Archaeology. After a showcase devoted to coins, whose shot starts with Islamization, the section he presents the main Islamic archeology sites recently Excavated Sijilmassa city founded in the eighth century, or we mark of pottery workshops; Belyounech, "campaign" of the city of Ceuta (Ceuta), or a palace, houses and water facilities have been excavated; Ksar es Saghir and Chichaoua, an important center of the sugar industry in Morocco that we will see a medieval collection of beautiful loaf of sugar. Bronzes room. It houses the large collection of ancient bronzes from most of Volubilis and the marble statuary of Volubilis, Banasa, Thamusida, Sala. The slope Ephèbe drink it, discovered in 1929, is the reply, probably Roman (Greek after R. Chatelain) a work of Praxiteles. Although slightly fleshy and with few errors anatomical (hips in particular are dissimilar), the statue evokes, by its continued pouring the Satyrs of Praxiteles, except that it does not carry any trace of animality (pointy ears, tail primer, etc.).. The Hound of Volubilis, found in 1916, is the earliest works of important discoveries on the site. It dates from the reign of the Hadri (early Ile century). He recalls his attitude dog mosaic (Cave Canem) House of Tragic Poet in Pompeii. The position of the hindquarters to suppose that once adorned a fountain in a rich house. The crown of ivy Ephèbe undoubtedly the major work of the museum. J. Carcopino he was "flexibility of Praxiteles, the expression Lysippos, the powerful modeling of Polykleitos. Its position indicates that it probably held a torch in his left hand. This type of Adonis said "lampadophore" began to develop from the 1st century AD under the reign of Augustus, where 1'on witnessed a return to a classical forms. Two pieces found in the house it's called Venus Volubilis noteworthy: The bust of Cato of Utica is the first century, so much post- his death. Great grand son of Cato the Elder Cato of Utica, he lived from 95 BC. BC This fervent Republican took Pompey against Caesar. After the defeat at Pharsalia (48) and the death of its champion, Cato led a Pompeian party. In 46, Caesar, landed in North Africa, routed the armed rebels last battle of Thapsus. 1a new learning in the city of Utica (N of Tunis), Cato chose to commit suicide rather than fall alive into the hands of his enemy. This beautiful bronze, in an excellent state of preservation - it only lacks the eyeballs, 1a reflects strength of character from what 1'0n called "the last bulwark of a republic. "

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A boomtown, pushed there in 1957, with an urban plan checkerboard contrast to the traditional city. The whole region is booming: Everywhere there developing new towns in the midst of impressive agricultural work. Nador is a big industrial and commercial town, and it will probably just passing through. Located near the center of steel Selouane, the young Moroccan city is still booming, and indeed the entire region, which arise and develop new towns in the midst of impressive development work in agricultural value. His fate is closely tied to that of its neighbor Spain, Melilla, which feeds a major smuggling port: this profitable traffic would place it at the forefront for bank deposits. The city revolves around its great mosque, minaret known by his endless. Avenue Mohammed V, planted with palm trees and decorated with wrought iron lamps, evokes a English paseo. This avenue, the most pleasant of the city, leading to the lagoon bordering Nador. In the north, the port of Nador Enzar Blessed is the natural outlet of eastern Morocco, but it is rivaled by that of Melilla. Nador around 1 - Sebkha Bou Areg. Between the City and the sea, a lagoon that is both beautiful and desolate, off the Mediterranean coastal strip by a virtually uninhabited and accessible only to pedestrians from Kariet-Akman (23 km south-east of Nador). The lagoon, dunes and salt marshes are the mark of an exceptional birdlife, beaches allow the harvest of beautiful shells. - From Kariet Akman-hand a coastal route eastward through the hills and never far from the sea, it leads to Ras Kebdana (40 km) and Cape Water (lighthouse). Offshore, the islands are English Chafarinas, a nature reserve should be established. 2 - Cape Three Forks (26 km North just Melilla before take direction Farkhana that is exceeded by continuing north. Cape, one of the most beautiful sites of Morocco, forms a magnificent setting overlooking the Mediterranean. After a few km of road, track reveals stunning views to the west before branching left to Haran and its lighthouse, continue along the track in very bad condition and difficult, but the splendor of the reward of the trail. While the rocky shores. Cape opened here and there to delicious coves and beaches, the views are revealed on every side of the sea to the tip of the cape that has a lighthouse. To see more in the region Melilla (13 km North) From Nador Oujda Nador (140 km by P27, 20 km longer if we "tour of the gorges of Zegzel). Route described here is a popular route in the northern region of Morocco East, between the Rif and the Algerian border. Crossing the broad plain of Moulouya, one of the primary components of agricultural development of Morocco, which has this as a huge water development works, then it bypasses the small solid Beni Snassen, eventful start the chain of the Middle Atlas, where a good road leads to the interesting detour gorges of Zegzel. Leaving the road from Nador Al Hoceima is left to the right after 11 km. 37 Km: Zaio at the foot of the mountains of Kebdana and the limit of the lower valley of Moulouya. Valley Moulouya natural corridor from which came the nomadic tribes of the pre-Saharan and Saharan regions, and was always an invasion route. It is through the thirteenth century appeared the Blessed Meri who had founded the dynasty Merinids. Due to the ever-present danger of invasion, making precarious communication between West and East, it remained for centuries a sort of no man's land that only the most powerful rulers of North Africa is allowed to cross. - At 50 km north-east by the CT8100, which along the lower valley of the Moulouya is Ras el Ma, a village that faces the island or islands Chafarinas Melouiya. These small islands, occupied since 1848, are inhabited by some families of fishermen and are the last presidios English Moroccan coast. 70 km: road right to Taforalt and gorges Zegzel 80 Km: Berkane, large agricultural town (almond) and wine (wines of Beni Snassen) founded at the beginning of the century. The city is developing intense over the last twenty years, and its dynamic economy tends to supplant Oujda. 92 Km: Regad Ain, a hamlet near an ancient kasbah built by Moulay Ismail (late seventeenth century) to contain the Blessed Snassen. 103 Km: left, Ahfir, large agricultural center founded in 1910 under the name of Martimprey Kiss. On the left, road to Saida P18 112 Km: Tizi Guerbouz, to 539 m altitude 116 km: road right to Aien es Sfa, where you can join the throats of 140 Km Zegzel Oujda

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OUALIDIA


Coopérants Moroccans and particularly appreciate this charming seaside resort. The city is also famous for its seafood, especially the famous oysters of Oualidia. Its good hotels make it a pleasant stopover on the coast. The kasbah of El Walid. This seaside village is named after its founder, Sultan Walid El saadien. There he built in 1634, a kasbah designed to defend access port located in the harbor. Swimming. Two crescent-shaped dunes with a rock in the middle, close the lagoon. The beach is particularly safe even if the two inlets communicating with the ocean is dangerous. Step gourmet. On weekends, hotels are often full. Apart from its site, the city is indeed famous for its oysters, whose culture flourished in the fifties. You can taste many other shellfish such as cockles and sea urchins. - From the old city remain remains of walls that you can see it hanging on the cliff. Souk on Saturday. - To see even in the El Jadida area (76 Km North-East); Safi (66km south) - From Route Oualidia Safi (66 Km south by the S121). The coastal road that descends to the south is superb: it is frequently maintained on the crest of the cliff, overlooking a series of scattered hamlets on the left and gentle remarkable views. Beautiful sandy beaches stretch, battered by waves. 33 Km: Beddouza hamlet built around the lighthouse. Km 33.5: right, heading Beddouza the Excape Cantin, usually identified with Cape Soloeis Veterans. In his famous journey the mid-fifth century BC, the Carthaginian admiral Hanno to a sanctuary dedicated to Poseidon. Cape, now completely bare, was then covered with trees and located in the vicinity (a lagoon invaded by reeds or grazed many elephants. 34 Km: road right to the beach at Cape Bedouza. 50 Km : A road leads right into (2 km) beach Lalla Fatma Mohammed (moussem the days before Ramadan.) Another road to the left leads to Safi, continue straight on. 59 km: it is left to right on course Safi : Remains of Borj Nador, a former Portuguese post. 62 Km: Sidi Bouzid qubba; panorama Safi. Part of the armada ally, under the command of General Patton, landed in 1942 in the area. 66 Km: Safi

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LAAYOUNE



The main economic center of the Saharan provinces grows near the mouth of the Seguiet el Hamra, mythical river which J. MG Le Clezio referenced in the Desert. Then we could believe her lost in her faraway south, the city has seen its importance grow economically with the neighborhood of the deposit phosphatier Boukraa, proximity of the Canaries, and the will of the Moroccan government. Growing city, Laayoune has a decidedly urban planning modernist.

fruits of voluntarism. Laayoune took advantage of the desire to organize the development of these territories. As such, it has benefited many Moroccan state investment. From Tarfaya, and across the southern Sahara, many products are subsidized and public employees have a double salary. These provisions have largely contributed to the advent of private sector executives and public. We'll see quite a few in Laayoune Saharawis dressed in traditional blue loose clothing. It will be noted, however many electronic gadgets and other consumer products in stores.

The city is organized around a large square futuristic design that includes all l administrations. The buildings were designed in a modern style respecting the traditional architecture Saharan Africa.

To see other buildings from the congress palace, the mosque, a craft center. The straight streets are lined with houses generally low, usually topped with domes.

Beach of Foum El Oued, Laayoune-Plage (safe swimming), and the port of embarkation in Laayoune are about

25 km south-west. of the city. An impressive automatic conveyor connects directly docks to the plains of phosphates Boukraa at, a hundred miles.

From Laayoune

- Smara (240 Km East; paved road; learn about the opening of this road to tourism). A city in prestigious history, and it remains only a memory. Follow the road from Laayoune Boukraa about 70 km, then turn left towards Itgui and Smara.

Smara is the new capital of province, creates a few miles south of Seguiet el Hamra, at the site of the holy city founded by Sheikh Ma el Ainin and the construction of which was attended by artists from Fes, Tangier and Tetouan. The Casbah, protected by a wall pierced by five gates, formed a set of eighteen buildings in circles which was the private residence of Sheikh.

The mosque, which remain the pillars and dome, occupied the north-east of the city. A rich library of Koranic schools, silos, tanks, baths, stables, large suburbs, where they held the souks completed the outfit. Several stations

petroglyphs near Smara: Asli, ed Selouane, Wadi Miran, etc..

Beyond Smara, the road heads north and crosses a few miles away Seguiet el Hamra itself.

- Boukraa and Guelta Zemmour: 8 km ; Learn about the opening of this road to tourism). The road climbs a part Boukraa 1'oued Khat, a tributary of Seguiet el Hamra and separates the road from Smara after 70 km.

- 105 Km: Bonkraa, center phosphatiers deposits of that name existed in society Phosboucraa;

The Office of Phosphates Shereefian now holds a majority stake.

The deposit, known since 1947, comprises three major basins, including that of Itgui operated from Boukraa. The reserves are estimated at 950 million m3 of high-grade ore, nearly 2 million m3 being open pit mining.

- 258 Km: Guelta Zemmour caravan step around a pool of water (guelta) fed during 6 months of the year and around which the herds graze Reguibat.

3 - Laayone Dakhla (542 Km from the new paved road, learn about the opening of this road to tourism). Exit towards Laayoune Laayoune Plage. Filer and due south along the Atlantic coast of Mauritania to the gates.

- 25 km: Port of embarkation Boukraa phosphates, or may be responsible for ore than 100 000 tonnes.

- 110 Km: Lemsid, not far from the qubba of Sidi Mohammed Bou Gambour.

- 199 km: Boujdour, near the cape of the same name, was reached by the Portuguese from the fifteenth century This territory is inhabited by Filali, originating Tafilalet.

Boujdour (15,167 inhab.) Is the county seat Tiris el Gharbia, the southernmost and largest of the provinces of Morocco (100,120 km2). A desalination of sea water was built. Flagship of a range of 200 miles high in 1965.

- 480 Km: it is in these parts that passed the old border (

was established in April 1976) between Mauritania and Morocco.

- 503 Km: Hassi Lahyad, intersection. Right, Dakhla direction (39 km). On the left, the road continues south to cross the line of the Tropic of Cancer and down to Lagouira and Mauritania; the area is controlled by the army, and the Mauritanian border is closed.

- 542 Km: Dakh1a. While in Laayoune to Dakhla comes to the ocean crash against the cliffs at once offered the magnificent lagoon of Rio de Oro, with its peacefulness and turquoise waters where many migratory birds rely. It is the "fishing paradise," very popular with surfers-carting. The region is also renowned for its beautiful underwater world, the authorities are to develop tourism there.

Dakhla was founded by the English in 1884 under the name of Villa Cisneros, who later became a stage of Aeropostale. The city is located towards the end of the long narrow almost the same name, which closes at West Bay in Rio de Oro

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Télouet



Glaoua the heart of the country, in a high valley Sink or wadi Imarene stands the impressive kasbah of Télouet. Abandoned since 1956, there remains little, this magnificent residence that was the illustration of the opulence of Glaoui, a pile of roofing glazed tiles, watch towers, terraces and cracked sections of walls. But his heart had been miraculously preserved in two pieces dazzling decor.

Télouet was the site of passage of caravans from Marrakesh to Ouarzazate by the road construction of Tizi-n Tichka. Thanks to this strategic position it was for a century, one of the strongholds of Lords Glaoui. Among them, Al Hadj Thami powerful account Glawi al, pasha of Marrakesh, "said the Glaoui, who was born and died in Télouet (1875-1956).

Télouet The region is inhabited since ancient times by Berbers related to the large family of Masmouda.

is achieved by the kasbah on the right track that leads up to the main gate of Dar Glaoui. This former residence of the boss until the end of the French protectorate, was the pasha of Marrakech, stands on a hill overlooking the wadi bed Amarah it includes a complex of buildings dating from the nineteenth century and consisting of successive additions. A main speaker at several courtyards surrounded by crenellated walls give the whole a most singular.

Accompanies a guardian (giving the same pay as an entrance to a museum official), we visit two pieces the sumptuous apartments, which were miraculously saved.

The most notable is the reception room, whose latticed windows open onto the countryside. The floor and walls are covered with mosaics, while the ceilings are of carved stucco and painted cedar. The decoration of these rooms mobilized 300 workers, who worked for three years and a painter who "each day covered a few square centimeters. It is curious to note how this rich Andalusian-inspired décor contrasts with the austerity of the Berber architecture that is discovered by standing on the terraces. Of these, very nice view of the Jebel Ghat (3800 m).

When all family assets were confiscated Glaoui after his death, the casbahs Telouet "visible sign of an ultimate ambition," was abandoned.

From Télouet you can reach the upper valley of Wadi lounil Ounila or by the track 6803 and beyond, Ait Ben Haddou (47 km all-terrain vehicle necessary to learn about the condition of the track , impassable during the rainy season). The trail along the former caravan route, passing by such kasbas of Anemiter and Tamdaght before reaching the Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou, fantastic pile of houses, towers and fortifications of red earth. Many ruins on the way, but the landscapes of great beauty

yet to see in the Marrakesh region

(1.37 km north-west) Ouarzazate (79 Km south-east.) route of Tizi-n Tichka

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"Timbuktu 52 days of camel": all the mythology and fascination of the desert on the famous panel ... signs the ancient vocation of Zagora, the last leg of the caravan route before the immense solitudes hamadas. Today the city is often the most southern end of a trip to Morocco. For those who dream of great adventure here Saharan near Zagora can perform few short trips and yet exotic.

Administrative Centre and a large village near Wadi Dra at the edge of the palm groves of Ternate and Ferzouata, Zagora offers no particular character, but is still very lively (souk on Wednesday and Thursday). Its main street, shopping, ends at the famous sign.

Jebel Zagora. To reach the site of this fortress of the Almoravids, at the foot of a rocky outcrop, turn left in front of the barracks at the end of Main Street.

Having crossed the Dra, take the left track Tamgrout 3 km further, turn right.

Runway, very narrow and winding, which leads to the summit offers a stunning panorama of the river, palm groves, the surrounding desert, with the distance, the bare mass of Jebel Saghro.

The tour is even more interesting when there is at sunrise or sunset from the top of the gazebo overlooking the entire region. From the fortress built in the XI, there remains in place only a few walls in ruins.

Amazrou is the goal of a superb ride, preferably be carried out in late afternoon and accompanied by a child who will guide you to the first dunes of the desert.

Maybe you will have the opportunity to be invited to take a mint tea in one of these wonderful enclosed gardens, close to the dunes. Children will also lead you to the kasbah of the Jews, remember a large community here, who established a tradition of handcrafted jewelry and silver work (but watch out for fake ...) continue with the Berbers. The palm is full of beautiful orchards hidden behind high walls due to high winds that blow at times.

Around Zagora.

1 - Tamgrout. (18 Km south-east). Tamgrout owes its fame to a major zaouïa whose influence was exerted over the entire valley Dra, the Dades, the Sub and even the Anti-Atlas.

The library was created at the zaouia XVII, Abu Abdallah Mohammed Bou Naceur, founder of the Koranic school, which brought the works of all Arab countries. One can see from the 4000 manuscripts, illuminated Korans, the oldest dated XI. It is possible, led by a guide, visit the tomb of the benefactor of this university that welcomes students always. In the courtyard of the mausoleum stay patients who hope to receive a miraculous healing. See also, the pottery workshops located in the open air, outside the enclosure the village.

In return, 1.5 km before Zagoura, we can follow a trail to the left to get to Amazrou.

2 - Mhamid (88 km to go after a day trip). The route follows the left bank of Dra. After passing Tamgrout, she runs through a landscape of dunes further, then crosses the river, beyond Anagam, goes down to $ Tagounit, large oasis of a dozen Ksour extending in the District Klaoua (souk Sunday and Thursday). From

Tagounit goes north-east track towards Nesrate oasis at the foot of Jebel Tadrart; beautiful dunes.

3 km further to the left just before the Tizi beni Selmane, a trail leads to the necropolis of Foum Rjam, overlooking the bend of Dra.

This cemetery is unique in Morocco, is composed of hundreds of conical mounds, some of them several meters in height. At the center of each, opening shows the location of the dead. Excavations have established that the necropolis dates from 800 BC Further south, one sees the old Jewish village Tidri.

It then crosses the Tizi Beni Selmane to 747 m above sea level in the chain of the same name. The road descends to a broad sandy plain before passing through a beautiful grove in the center of which stands the Ksar Oulad Driss. Further extends the palm of Mhamid (73 Km)

Mhamid (88 Km) is the administrative center of the last means Dra. The town is located near the elbow which is the wadi curving sharply to the west toward the Atlantic Ocean that reach, if ever. The weekly market on Mondays, traditionally frequented by men in blue, camel nomads of the desert, saw its reduced activity in response to the problems faced by Morocco on the border crossings.

In the oasis, Ksar ruined, known as el Allouj Kesbt of the height of the European Legion, still testifies activity in this region of Dra average at the end of the sixteenth, at the time of Saadi, at a time when trade with Sudan were very important. The name of this reminds Ksar of an expeditionary force, composed largely of Christians. succeeded in seizing Timbuktu during the reign of Ahmed el Mansour (1578-1602).

See also the small mausoleum of Sidi Allal Ben Jbira. According to local tradition, it would have happened one day during a flood Dra, floating on its waters.

to see again in the region.

The Dra valley

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Tiznit Zagora



Behind a beautiful crenellated walls of ocher-colored pink, Tiznit hides Medina, a Jewish quarter and a méchouar worth a visit. The city is also famous for its handicrafts, especially the Berber jewelry and finely wrought weapons. A young
market town. Tiznit was founded in 1882 under the reign of Moulay el Hassan (1873-1894), during an expedition launched by the central government for the submission of the sub and neighboring regions of the Anti- atlas. She soon became a center of trade with the West, where flocked products of the country. In 1912, the pretender El Hiba proclaimed himself sultan and recognized as such throughout the sub, rallied to his cause many "blue man" who, like him to Mauritania. It was also their clothing, which earned him being called the "Sultan blue. Visit

Tiznit.

Duration: one to two hours after walking in the city, especially for busy bazaar on Thursday.

From Agadir we enter the port Bab Oulad Jarrar. Past and a bridge instead of the Pasha, veer to the left via the street from the Hospital to meet the méchouar, true heart of the city. Its vast polygon bordered by shops protected by striped awnings used to both parking, bus station and location for the busy market on Thursdays.

Leaving the place, from the bottom, left and along the streets that line the walls, we win the souk of jewelers whose stalls are arranged around a small rectangular square. It contains silver Berber jewelry sometimes original, but still worked in a fairly coarse. Weapons inlays, another specialty of Tiznit, are more finely cut and sometimes decorated with silver filigree. Bine seeking, you may be lucky enough to discover some ancient brooches or bracelets heavy.

In place of the Pasha, Bab el Khémis win past the mosque, whose minaret is topped by oddly poles. They were placed there to say that the souls of the dead could rest.

A little further on the left is the blue source of Lalla Tiznit. It's actually a simple cement basin which has no other interest than his legend: a converted sinner would have withdrawn from this source and near to the site of the present Tiznit, have founded a town has disappeared.

Continue beyond this source through the streets Igui Tfliouine n and N to the double wall Tourgue we Revenue Is Bab Targua. By going up and going west to the next gate, Bab el Khémis, nice view over the palm and olive groves.

surroundings Tiznit.

Aglou Sidi Moussa (17 km north-west by a good tarred road). It is the range of Tiznit, very attractive because of the intense heat that prevails in this town in summer. At the end of this beautiful beach on the right you will see in the cliff and cave dwellings occupied by fishermen (fun souk donkeys and camels on Tuesday).

to see again in the region:

Agadir (91 km north); Goulimime (108 km south-west); Tafraoute (107 Km east), Sidi Ifni (75 Km south west).

From Tiznit.

1 - From Tiznit Tafraoute (107 Km by road 7074, paved but narrow) 20.5 km

: Assaka Blagh or left on asif Tazeroualt. After crossing an arid steppe is elevating in gentle undulations, we reached the foothills of the Anti Atlas. It then engages in a groove of argan trees planted where the squirrels frolic.

40 km: road right to the zaouia Sidi Ahmed (11km) or Musa.

Hence a track leads to Iligh (4km), former capital of the partly abandoned Tazeroualt district. The XVI XIX, Tazeroualt was ruled by marabouts Idrisids, descendants of the saint Sidi Ahmed ou Moussa (died 1563). His son, Sidi Bou Ali AIMD, both marabout warrior, was able to be a stronghold of independent central government. nothing remains of this former residence of some marabouts Koubbas where lie the founders of this small dynasty.

Km 57.5: Col du Kerdous. Opportunity to stop at the hotel located on a hill that skirts the road, and from its terrace offers a magnificent view.

60 km: the right track for Ifrane Anti-Atlas.

67.5 Km: Tizourhan beyond which it leaves the plateau by engaging in a throat where grow many almond trees.

98 Km: Arba n Tafraout; market Ammeln Wednesday. Shortly thereafter, décourvre superb views over a gorge green, very narrow and flanked by massive rock in strange forms.

102 Km: Affella Wadag village with houses decorated, nearly a agadir.

109 Km: Tafraoute.

2 - Tiznit Goulimine by Sidi Ifni (131 Km by road 7064.7109 and 7129).

Exit Tiznit westward toward Mighleft.

26 Km: leave on left Souk el Arba du Sahel, on the banks of asif n Tiouinite which we descend the valley.

35 km: it reached the Atlantic coast Gouzizim established in adessus viewpoint of the ocean. Along the winding road up to Sidi Ifni coastline embellished by the fall in the foothills of the Anti Atlas in the sea 44 Km

: borj of Mighleft on the left audessus a small town run by the souks.

47 Km: we cross the river Salogmad Near its mouth, marabout Sidi Mohammed.

75 km Sidi Ifni.

Beyond Sidi Ifni, you can sue a coastal trail wins Assaka wadi, or river Nun, near its mouth. Along the gorges of the wadi, one arrives at the village Tiséguenane, then Goulimine.

95 km Souk el Arba de Mesti (souk Wednesday). Continuing in this arid mountain travres languid shapes, we arrive to a wide stony plain.

131 Km: Goulimine. From here you may return Tiznit by the direct route which passes by Bou Izakarn (108 km).

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Ouezzane



On the road to Tetouan in Meknes, Ouezzane s' leans to the north slope of Jebel Bou Hellal.ville siante since Moulay Abdallah, has remained a religious center of reference and a place of pilgrimage.

Full of charm, white medina is full of staircases, vaulted passage and arches. The city is devoid of hotel infrastructure, we will step in Chefchaouen, Fez and Meknes.

From village to political and religious center. The village of Mount Myrtle, or Dechra Jebel er Rihan, Ouezzane ancestor, in 1927 became the center of an important religious brotherhood, the Taibia, when the Sharif Moulay Abdallah, a descendant of Idris II, including a zaouïa Crea. The house was founded Ouezzane turn branches across the Maghreb.

Located on the edge of the old corn el Makhzen (territory under the administration of the sultans) and corn for "Siba" (territory beyond their authority) The zaouia of Ouezzane was beautifully positioned to become an instrument of political and religious influence. It became, indeed, very powerful. His ascendancy was exercised on a regional and national level until the last century. We reached the

zaouia, dominated by an octagonal minaret decorated with interlacing and zelliges, taking a street stairs at the bottom of the vast Independence. It then passes to the mosque of Moulay Ali Cherif.

In this neighborhood still several old houses belonging to the sheriffs of Ouezzane and their followers.

Beyond that, we will walk through the souks of carpenters and blacksmiths, before reaching the place Bir Enzarane, triangular. Surrounded by workshops of weavers, it is dominated by the Kasbah district. Grand bazaar on Thursday.

Further, we can enter and wander through the souks of fun and join the street Abdullah bin Lamlih which, cons up shrines, returns in place of Independence.

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CHAOUEN



Founded to fight. Moulay Rachid Ali, sharif of Jebel Alam, founded the city in 1471 to serve as a starting point for its attacks against the Portuguese in Ceuta and Ksar es Saghir. Kasbah, that we can still see, was built at this time.

A large contingent of Muslim refugees from Spain came the people from the late 15 th, as reflected in the district of el Rif Andalous. Chaouen passed in 1561 under the authority of the dynasty Saadian and enjoyed some prosperity under the Alawite dynasty.

Forbidden City. Chefchaouen, famous holy city and has more than twenty or mosques or shrines, was long forbidden to Christians, even though there were many Jews. At the foot of

djebels or Tisouka Kella (2050 m) and Meggou (1616 m) which together form the Jebel esh Chaouen (<< les Cornes>>), contains little Chaouen extraordinary monument. the charm of the city comes from its narrow streets where one does not hesitate to get lost: we always find its way.

Duration: 2 hours, We have gone around the medina. If we hurry, we will directly drive up Makhzen to or you reach the place Uta el Hamman. the sok of Chefchaouen is held Tuesday and Thursday.

We can start the tour by climbing up to the hotel Asmma. Her weight crushes the site somewhat, but the view on the medina can better appreciate the setup. Then join the modern city.

Avenue Hassan II, the main artery of the city Modern continues skirting the medina by the S. At one of its ends, instead Mohammed 5 is for its architecture, reminiscent of the English protectorate. S. of this section is held (Tuesday and Thursday) market. At the other end, Bab el Ain is the main entrance of the ancient city. Immediately the gate, we go up the alley to. which leads through the Medina up to a huge square that forms the real center of the city alive.

Place Uta el Hamman is, with its cafes, shops, kebab nonchalant its animation, the ideal place for a tea mint. on the right you will notice the great mocked the octagonal minaret, built in the late 15 th.

Kasbah: opens from 9 am to 13 am and 15 am to 18.30 also dates from the founding of the city in 1471. its crenellated wall hides a pleasant and peaceful Andalusian gardens and a small museum. At the entrance, or cell Abdel Karim, who had his headquarters here was taken prisoner by the Spaniards in 1926.

At the museum, we'll see palanquins of the last century, real wooden chest painted inside where 's the bride seated him on his wedding day, the gatehouse of the Rif, regional costumes and musical instruments. On the first floor, fans of Morocco may consult books in Arabic, English and French.

Medina to enter, take a street on the left at the bottom of the square. The cobbled streets' s raise between houses with whitewashed walls in the upper part. Besides white, the head affix these colors typical of Shun, blue and purple through green, colors that have the property of repelling mosquitoes. In this confused mass or whether the volumes are following suit this emerging and minarets that are available, they, in the nakedness of their raw materials, the arch of overlapping connects homes often betrays them due to a reminiscence Andalusian Muslim emigrants from Spain.

Shortly after leaving the place, left little interest caravanserai whose cells' s ordering around a tiny square yard. Through the Medina, you will certainly go to one of the many shrines that make up the city. The most important are those of Sidi Ben Yahia, founded in 1592, and Sidi el Hadj Cherif.

Continuing straight, you reach another city gate, Bab el Onsar, which leads east to the mountain, near the Wadi Lau, and saves (3 Km) source of Ras el Ma. It is at the end of a trail and descends into a nice cascade from which are set two small cafes. Along the way, many traditional mills and beautiful city views.

Going down into the city by the left wins it instead el Makhzen, continues to place Uta el Hamman, and where many bazaars. of, we may drop worm Bab El Ain taking the Avenue Hassan II, which saves beautiful view over the valley.

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