Tag: Morocco

Attractions Oualidia The relatively small town of Oualidia is located in a lagoon right on the Atlantic coast. It has one of the most popular beaches in Morocco. In addition to swimming and fishing, surfing and kayaking are the main activities. But nature lovers also get their money’s worth. Many species of birds live in […]

Most of the Morocco opens wide on the Atlantic Ocean, on a front of about 1000 km, but the rocky and straight coast, difficult to land, contributed to its isolation. On the other hand, the fold system of the Atlas, of relatively recent origin, isolates it both with respect to the Sahara and with the […]

Fès [fεs], Fez [fε ː z], city in northern Morocco, on the edge of the Sebou basin, 350 m above sea level, (2019) 1.17 million residents. Administrative seat of the prefecture of the same name and the Fès-Meknes region; cultural, intellectual and religious center of the country, oldest and highest ranking of its four “royal […]

The French example was followed by Spain, which in 1958 also ceded the northern part of the Spanish Sahara to Morocco and in 1969 Ifni. The sultan assumed the title of king as early as 1957. The social tensions, which already during the reign of Muḥammad had led to the secession from the Istiqlāl party […]