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Tetouan Museum of Modern Art
Tetouan boasts one of only two schools of fine arts in Morocco (Casablanca has the other), so its only fitting that this new museum should open here. The building itself is worth a visit: a magnificent Spanish-castle-like building that was once the railway station. It has been care
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Tamnougalt Ksar
The maze of rooms at Tamnougalt ksar (fortified stronghold) leads through a sizable mellah, dips underground with strategically placed skylights and candle nooks, and emerges into sunny courtyard stables lined with horseshoe arches. See if you can distinguish between the Arab, Anda
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Sidi Moussa
For a spectacular sunset, take the road west out of Tabant, and you’ll find the trailhead leading up to the Unesco-heritage zawiya of local marabout (saint) Sidi Moussa. It’s a straightforward 20-minute uphill hike (15 minutes downhill), and you won’t need a guide. The round struct
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Erg Chigaga
The soft sculpted peaks of Erg Chigaga are located several days trek or two hours drive from MHamid. It is the largest sand sea in Morocco, snaking along the horizon for 40km and bordered to the north and south by mountain ridges. This sea of golden crescents, which peak at 300m, h
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Nectarôme
Just after the bridge in Tnine, signs off the main road point down a dirt track towards the organic botanical gardens of a Franco-Moroccan natural bath-product company that combines Berber herbal remedies with modern aromatherapy. The garden certainly smells great, and a footbath a
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Artisanal School
Just outside Bab el-Okla is the best artisan centre in northern Morocco. This is a fascinating opportunity to see masters teaching apprentices traditional arts, including ornamental woodwork, silk costumes, carved plaster, intricate mosaics and decorative rifles. A fantastic centra
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Glaoui Kasbah
The once-glorious stronghold has been left to crumble, and the best indication of Telouet’s former position as the centre of a trans-Saharan trading empire is the 2nd-floor reception rooms . No less than 300 artisans worked on salons faceted with stucco, zellij and painted cedar ce
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Taourirt Kasbah
Unlike other Glaoui kasbahs, Taourirt escaped ruin by moonlighting as a Hollywood backdrop (Sheltering Sky, Gladiator, Prince of Persia ) and attracting the attention of Unesco, which has carefully restored small sections of the inner sanctum. Follow the maze of stairwells to the t
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Casa de Los Dragones
The Casa de los Dragones on Plaza de los Reyes is a fantastic dream that has entered the real world. Recently restored to perfection, this former home is an extraordinary example of eclectic architecture, with Moorish arches, polished brick facades, Mansard roofs, fabulous balconie
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Melilla la Vieja
Perched over the Mediterranean, Melilla la Vieja is a prime example of the fortress strongholds that the Portuguese and (in this case) the Spaniards built along the Moroccan littoral during the 16th and 17th centuries. Much of it has been painstakingly restored in recent years. The
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Royal Walls
The most impressive sight in Ceuta is the medieval Royal Walls, dating back to the 5th century. These extensive fortifications, of great strategic complexity, have been beautifully restored, with information boards in English. The beautifully designed Museo de los Muralles Reales ,
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Medina Walls
The medina walls, around 3km in circumference, have recently been restored. They are a legacy from when Taza served briefly as the Almohad capital in the 12th century. The bastion – where the walls jut out to the east of the medina – was added 400 years later by the Saadians. The m
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Musée des Arts et Traditions de la Valleé du Drâa
Eight kilometres north of town, below a spectacular viewing point over the palmeraie follow, ‘Musée’ signs to a triple-storey mudbrick home that houses this fascinating desert-culture museum. In the tea salon, you’ll find key equipment for desert entertaining c 1930: a vintage ham
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Nejjarine Museum of Wooden Arts & Crafts
Opened in 1998, this museum is in a wonderfully restored funduq – a caravanserai for travelling merchants who stored and sold their goods below and took lodgings on the floors above. Centred on a courtyard, the rooms are given over to displays of traditional artefacts of craftsmen’
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Historic Sites
Numerous dilapidated buildings recall the days when Saint-Exupéry and the chaps touched down here. The Casa Mar is abandoned but still standing, and can be easily reached at low tide. At the north end of the beach, a monument honours Saint-Exupéry’s memory: a dinky green Bréguet 14
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Tangier American Legation Museum
This museum is a must-see: Morocco was one of the first countries to recognise the fledgling United States, and this was the first piece of American real estate abroad (look for the letter of thanks from George Washington to Sultan Moulay Suleyman). It is also the only US National
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Tin Mal Mosque
Heading south towards Tizi n’Test from Marrakesh, you’ll notice Tin Mal village on the right of the road, just past a kasbah perched on a rocky outcrop to your left. The village’s Almohad-era mosque was built in 1156 in honour of the dynasty’s strict spiritual leader, Mohammed ibn
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Cooperative Tikniouine
Some 5km east along the main road from Agouti is the village of Tikniouine, a key stop for gourmet treats and cultural immersion. The cooperative was formed in 2005 by plucky young women who secured EU funding to start cultivating organic walnuts, collecting mountain wildflower hon
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Plaza de Africa
This is the charming heart of Ceuta, with manicured tropical plantings, a square of cobblestone streets and some of the city’s finest architecture. Moving clockwise from the oblong Commandancia General , a military headquarters closed to visitors, you encounter the striking yellow
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Musée de Oasis
Inside restored Ksar el-Khorbat is this award-winning museum that traces tribal migrations through 22 rooms of carefully curated artefacts of seminomadic life: saddles worn shiny; contracts inscribed on wooden tablets in Arabic and Hebrew; Tinejdad jars for water and preserved butt
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