Chefchaouen city

The Pearl of the Rif: a small, completely whitewashed city, with its typical blue that has made it famous throughout the world, also the only city in all of Morocco with tile roofs inherited from its past which makes it the most Andalusian of all Moroccan cities. In addition, It preserves the perimeter of the medieval walls of its medina with different gates, the most important is Bab la Ain, a Kasbah of the 15th-17th century that is currently visitable and contains the city’s ethnographic museum, and

it is located in the Uta el-Hammam square in the heart of the city, which also has a 15th-century mosque with an octagonal minaret, near this square exists a formidable place (traditional space in the Arab medinas with rooms around the courtyard, those on the ground floor for horses and merchandise, however, the upper floor for guests) currently used as a space to sell local crafts.

Chefchaouen was founded in the 15th century by the Idrisid dynasty and had a strong growth with the Moorish and Jewish population escaping from the current Spain in the 15th century after the fall of Granada. The city has countless looms. that gave him fame in the manufacture of fabric for the djellabas, also has numerous charming alleys to each more evocative and beautiful mosque. Near the Bab el Ansar door is the Ras el Ma from where the river Lau rises.

The city had a major importance during the Spanish protectorate, from that time the Spanish quarter was discreetly separated from the traditional medina. Today it is a major tourist center for both the Moroccan and foreign populations. Incomprehensibly, the city has not yet been declared a World Heritage Site.

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