One of the best tourist cities in Africa : Tangier !

 

 

 Tangier is a city in northern Morocco. It is the capital of the region of Tangier-Tetouan and Tangier prefecture-Asilah. Located at the northern end of the country, the city is the main gate of Morocco to Europe, which it is separated by 14 km of the Strait of Gibraltar. The population of Tangier amounted to 669 685 inhabitants in the 2004 census [1], making it the fifth largest city in Morocco. Tangier has a rich history and unique geography. The beauty of its site and its light made it a source of inspiration for generations of artists and intellectuals among the greatest. She was nicknamed "city of strangers" due to his numerous colonizations (Phoenicians, Arabs, Portuguese, English, French and Spanish).Tangier has always been a "small world city" .It is registered for a long time in the imaginary world as a city of trade, cosmopolitan and mysterious.Mediterranean Gate, door of Africa, it has a unique and ideally located site.International city before the time, it has everything to find in the era of globalization it has acquired the status there are more than a century.The vast geography of the bay, the topography that depicts the medina and bathymetry of the Strait, which dictated the location and port developments, have made over time a unique and indivisible whole.This "urban scenography" remarkable also comes with a built architectural richness from age to age by aggregating influences from elsewhere to make up mindTangiers.