A city or pottery remains Identity: Safi

A city or pottery remains Identity: Safi
The town of Safi is a city of the Kingdom of Morocco which is located on the Atlantic coast, is a city rich in heritage, pottery, fishing, folk arts, ellle is the capital of the region Doukkala-Abda, bounded by Essaouira El Jadida, Marrakech, Safi port is one of the largest in the country, Safi is also home since the 60s, a large industrial complex processing of phosphate, it currently has more than 290.000 inhabitants.

This is one of the oldest cities of Morocco, not enough of this historical city, but it is especially marked by the Portuguese colonial presence in particular, and traces of Phoenician presence, Safi probably visited later by the Romans, it appears in Arabic texts under the name Asfi, from the eleventh century, a small port Safialors performer local.Safi city or the surrounding sea, Safi assured, as the port city of Marrakech Almohad empire the twelfth century, a direct relationship with Andalusia and presented as a highly urbanized area, with particularly significant fortifications and a large central mosque, which were attached many institutions.
At the end of the XII century, Abi Salih Mohammed, patron saint of Safi since founded a fortified monastery or ribat in a suburb adjoining the city, which would give a religious Safi, of national and international scope, Safi is pottery capital of the world, it has a village of potters who is on the hill in front of Bab Chaâba, one of the ancient gates of the city east side of Safi, which gives access to the old medina.

Rabat a range of the best singers in the world (Mawazine)

Rabat a range of the best singers in the world (Mawazine) 
Rabat sightseeing

Your morning tour of Morocco's capital begins with a visit to theMohammed V Mausoleum, a richly decorated modern monument (1961) dedicated to the father of Moroccan independence.  Facing the mausoleum, and dominating the skyline of Rabat for more than 800 years, is the soaring Tour Hassan Minaret, an unfinished structure that is contemporary with Marrakesh's Koutoubia and the Giralda in Seville.  Continue to the Kasbah des Oudaias, which overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and contains a lovely Andalusian garden and the interesting Jewellery Museum, housed in a 17th century palace.  The tour ends at the Museum of Antiquities with its collection of objects discovered during excavations of pre-historic, Punic and Roman sites, including some superb marbles and bronzes from Volubilis.  Particularly memorable is the strikingly realisticVolubilis Dog (below) discovered in 1916 and dating back to the reign of Hadrian.

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Rabat a range of the best singers in the world (Mawazine)
Mawazine
Rabat, Morocco - The international music stars Joe Cocker, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), and Shakira and Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado attend the 10th edition of Festival Mawazine World Rhythms-Rabat, scheduled for next May in Rabat , organizers announced Monday. Joe Cocker, British singer, is the author of several tunes like 'Unchain My Heart' album released in 1987. After an absence due to ill health, he returned to success in the 1980s and 1990s

Sitting on the Atlantic coastal plain Morocco's capital, Rabat, is a modern city with wide boulevards, gardens and white buildings.  A far cry from the hectic warrens of the other Imperial cities of Marrakech and Fes, but no less steeped in history with its origins going back to the 7th Century.

The enchanted city is home to many historic monuments and has some superbly preserved relics of its Moorish past.

A must-see is the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, which was completed in 1971 and contains the tombs of the late Moroccan king and his two sons. Get a taste of a Moroccan medina with a visit to the Oudaya Kasbah, built in the 16th and 17th centuries on ancient foundations and relax in the gardens. Travel outside the city walls to see the ancient city of Sala, the first city in Morocco to be built by the Berbers.

We have handpicked Villa Mandarine with its stunning gardens and Sofitel Rabat Jardin des Roses for A&K's Rabat holidays. This is a great destination to twin with Fes so that visits to Voloubilis and Meknes can be enjoyed.

Born Steven Georgiou in London, Cat Stevens rose to fame in the 1960s and 1970s with its pop songs and folk. He converted to Islam in 1977, taking the name Yusuf Islam.

a border town with Algeria OUJDA

a border town with Algeria OUJDA
Oujda is the capital of eastern Morocco. It is a border town with Algeria.

beautiful mountain regions of Morocco: beni-Isnassen. This ideal location makes it a crossroads between Morocco and other countries of the Maghreb and North Africa on the one hand and between Morocco and Europe via Nador other.Itself is the gateway land of Morocco. It is built on the plain of Angad bordered by one of the most beautiful mountain regions of Morocco: beni-Isnassen. This ideal location makes it a crossroads between Morocco and other countries of the Maghreb and North Africa on the one hand and between Morocco and Europe via Nador other.

Founded in 994 by Ziri Ben Attia chief of the tribe of Maghraoua (nomadic group Zéèntes) Oujda remained the capital of his kingdom for 80 years.
Arab historians report that Ziri Ben Attia wanted to Oujda link removal in case of defeat, saying it was safer in the middle of an empty plain traversed by nomadic or Zenetes to Fez to Tlemcen where the urban population was less attached to him.
Through this city Ziri Ben Attia tried to control a crossroads where CROI caravans from the sea and those joining Sijilmassa Tlemcen in Fez.
Oujda was therefore a node from a major commercial traffic at the intersection of two main axes of movement.
Maghraoua domination that lasted eighty years. Oujda then successively host the Almoravids and the Almohads, who, in 1208, there arose a new belt of fortifications.
Later, Meridians of Fez and Tlemcen Abdelouadites made it an issue that led to its complete destruction in 1271 the king Mérinide Abou Youssef rebuilt the city by building a casbah, a palace, a mosque (Jamaa El Kebir) which still exists today.
Oujda was ruined again between 1335 and 1336 by Sultan Abou Hassan.
After 1336, the city was built gradually in 1679 the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail was partially restore the main buildings of Oujda, which fell shortly after the hands of structures which ended in 1795.
Between 1894 and 1896, an enclosure was built to protect the city that had the shape of an irregular polygon with an area of ​​28 hectares.
No changes should be made to its appearance until 1907, when the occupation of the city by French troops Oujda March 29.
Three main gates gave access to the town to the east:
Bab Sidi Abdelouahab ogival door flanked by two bastions above Maghzen which was hanging severed heads of rebels hence the name "door top"
North Bab El Khemis. Medina consisted of nine different neighborhoods fractions of the population oujda (achegfane - ahl oujda - oulad amrane - ahl el jamel - oulad el gadi - oulad Aissa - the Mellah)
Medina also included the market area (merchant and raking) and the district of the Kasbah (maghzen offices)
Near the Bab Sidi Abdelouahab a souk MMOU market held every Thursday, five hotels fondouk or three mosques Djamaâ El Kebir, Djamaâ Heddada, Djamaa Sidi Uqba) a madrasa or college, three synagogues.
In the gardens, irrigated by seguia, fed by sources Benyounes Sidi Yahia, people were Oujda vegetable crops.
For safety reasons, the French military camp settled on a hill (572m), which at 900 meters south dominated the medina.
1920 construction of common interest appear:
A covered market place of Arab Bab Sidi Abdelouahab
slaughterhouse near the Kasba
Treasury building
the Court of First Instance
high school boys and old college girls.
In 1910 the standard gauge railway was extended from Algeria to Marnia Oujda.
For technical reasons, the station was built three miles north of the medina. (Village koulouche) 1920, appeared constructions of common interest: a covered market place abdelouahab Arab, a slaughterhouse near the Kasbah Treasury building, the court of first instance, the school boy and the old college girls.
The construction of a new station, decided in 1928, due to the remoteness of the station early, helped prevent any extension to the west of the city is stopped by the garden can only grow by a north-south direction.
Indeed, the constraints of topography imposed the location of the station on the right bank of Oued-Nachef.