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Bab Guissa
This gate was built in the 12th century. A bird market is held here on Friday mornings, outside the walls. Just inside the gate is a square with a large fountain, the Bab Guissa mosque and the medersa which is still in use today. The air is scented with cedarwood from the large num
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Grand Hôtel Villa de France
To the north of Pl de France in the ville nouvelle, down Rue de la Liberté, stands the closed (though possibly to reopen) Grand Hôtel Villa de France. The French painter Eugène Delacroix stayed here in 1832, when it really was a grand hotel. His fellow artist and compatriot, Henri
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Association Ighrem Atelier du Sculpture
In Agouti at this centre, 500m from Flilou, on the left, visitors can watch artisans carve free-form spoons and bowls from fragrant walnut, juniper and boxwood salvaged from fallen trees. With proceeds from sales, the association is reforesting the valley with fast-growing boxwood
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Erg Ezahar
This tall screaming dune set amid a sea of smaller dunes wails eerily when the wind kicks up. Located 65km southwest of MHamid it takes three days to reach it by camel, passing an old marabout shrine and the flat plain of Bousnaïna where artefacts from a long disappeared village ar
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Bab Fettouh
After the death of Prince Ibn Ateya Senhai in the 11th century, his two sons divided responsibility for ruling the city. Fettouh, the eldest, who ruled the Al-Andalous quarter, erected this handsome gate and named it after himself. It was rebuilt by the Alawites in the 18th century
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Galerie Rê
Head across Ave Mohammed V and down Rue ibn Toumert to check out next-generation art stars at Galerie Ré . Keep an eye out for Amina Benbouchta’s hieroglyphically minimalist paintings, Mauoal Bouchaïb’s petroglyph-inspired etchings, editions of poetry illustrated by gallery artists
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Ksar Oulad Abdelhalim
About 1km or so past the zawiya on your right, this glorious ruin once called the ‘Alhambra of the Tafilalt’ was built around 1900 for Sultan Moulay Hassan’s elder brother. Walk through the wooden door into the walled compound, then veer right, left and right again to admire the pa
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Musée de Meknès
Housed in the gracious old Tribunal building, this newly-opened museum features metalwork, farming implements, clothing, jewellery, carpets and ceramics. Look out for the remarkable set of armour made of copper and encrusted with coral beads, turquoise studs and coins. This warrior
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DARNA, The Women’s Association of Tangier
The yellow building opposite La Terrasse is a small complex offering an inexpensive restaurant, a boutique shop with crafts and clothing, and a sunny courtyard, making it a popular stop for lunch or just a place to relax. Since 2002, DARNA has served as a community house to help lo
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Central Oujda
Although full of new buildings, a few deco buildings survive in the side streets of central Oujda. Walking south along Blvd Mohammed V, note the 1930s clock tower , the fine sandstone mosque , and the impressive French neo-Moorish Banque al-Maghrib , before arriving at the Church o
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Rahba Qedima
Harry and the Hogwarts crowd probably shop here for school supplies. The Rahba Qedima is ringed with apothecaries who sell exotic and mysterious spell supplies to locals and traditional cosmetics to tourists, who eagerly dip a wet finger into clay pots of aker and smear it on their
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Agdal Basin
Immediately north of the granaries and stables lies an enormous stone-lined lake, the Agdal Basin. Fed by a complex system of irrigation channels some 25km long, it served as both a reservoir for the sultan’s gardens and a pleasure lake. There are plenty of benches to break your st
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Musée de la Fondation Lorin
This eclectic museum is housed in a former synagogue. Here you will find an open two-storey room with an engaging collection of black-and-white photographs of 19th- and 20th-century Tangier on the walls. Meanwhile there is likely a children’s theatre going on in the centre, as the
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Stone Lion
Ifrane’s other landmark is the stone lion that sits on a patch of grass near the Hôtel Chamonix. It was carved by a German soldier during WWII, when Ifrane was used briefly as a prisoner-of-war camp, and commemorates the last wild Atlas lion, which was shot near here in the early 1
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Mausoleum
Al-Mutamid’s tomb is marked with an Almoravid-style domed mausoleum. Its signed right off the main road after the commune building, inside a garden enclosure 200m along on the left. The dissident’s tomb was the site of a 1950 protest against French occupation that was violently sup
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Kasbah Amridil
Morocco’s most coveted kasbah is this 17th-century wonder, which appears on Morocco’s 50-dirham note. Signposted just a few hundred metres from the main road, this living museum shows that traditional kasbah life hasn’t changed much over the centuries, with hand-carved door locks,
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Citerne Portugaise
On the main street past the souvenir shops is a vast, vaulted cistern lit by a single shaft of light. The spectacularly tranquil spot, with a thin film of water on the floor reflecting a mirror image of the vaulted ceiling and elegant columns, was originally used to collect water.
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Volubilis
<p>Volubilis is the site of the largest and best-preserved Roman ruins in Morocco. Dating largely from the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, excavations have revealed that the site was originally settled by Carthaginian traders even earlier. At its peak, it is estimated that the city
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Mendoubia Gardens
Across the Grand Socco from the Cinema Rif is this large park full of strolling couples and children playing football. The Mendoubia Gardens are flanked by an elegant line of colonial buildings, perhaps the most attractive of its kind in the city. At the top of the central hill is
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Aït Youl
Those art-deco tourism posters you’ll see all over Morocco showing a red-and-white kasbah in a rocky oasis aren’t exaggerating: just 6.5km into the gorge the old Glaoui kasbah of Aït Youl is set against a lush backdrop of almond and fig trees. A couple of kilometres past Aït Youl,
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