:Tanger
Located at the entrance of the Strait of Gibraltar, at the crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, the beautiful Tangier has an unforgettable landscape that has for centuries attracted generations of artists, including Eugène Delacroix, Camille Saint--Saëns, Pierre Loti and Paul Morand. And how not to succumb to this city in northern Morocco?
With its temperate vegetation profusely, if its separate brightness and stretch of beach that stretches over three kilometers climate, Tangier attracted every year thousands of tourists. His story also makes a mythical city, land of successive occupations: one whose story would have started with one of the stories of the twelve labors of Hercules and Antaeus Tanjus the gods would be in the beginning, was marked successively by Phoenician and Carthaginian presence Romanesque vandal, Byzantine and Arabic as well Visigoth.
The city of strangers, as it is called, keeps track of these periods of relentless colonization: the old Medina retains memories of Muslim influence: barely crossed the threshold, you will be assaulted by the smells and scents the Grand Socco, literally the big soukh, which inspired a novel by Joseph Kessel. ... Traders in traditional dress you héleront to sell you traditional clothing of the country and its leather goods. A few meters away, you will also admire the Sidi Bou Abid Mosque, whose minaret in polychrome pottery is the favorite of visitors with its beauty attraction. But beware: the entrance of this place of worship is forbidden to non-Muslims.
Conversely, the modern city of Tangier, in the image of its place of France has retained the stigma of French architectural expertise. Le Grand Café de Paris in also is one of the pillars must. Tangier is definitely one of those cities that must be surveyed to discover its wonders.
Transport and travel in Tangier:
A flight to Tangier takes 2 hours 45 minutes from Paris. Airport Tangier - Ibn Battuta, which has been completely renovated and expanded in 2008, is 15 kilometers from Tangier. Tangier is also connected to other Moroccan cities such as Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech, Fez, Oujda by train. Lines ferries also join this city in Sète or Port-Vendres (Eastern Pyrenees) in France.
Source : http://www.alibabuy.com/guide-touristique-tanger,maroc.html
