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Morocco-Tangier, the Africa's harbour

78 images Created 2 Apr 2009

They call it the Window on the Strait, but Tangier is all along the capital of the obsession of the elsewhere. Phoenicians, Berber, Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Moroccan, Roman soldiers, nobody never knew if Tangier was an outpost of Europe in Africa or of Africa in Europe. Here people don’t come for what it is but for what it has been, for a cursed and romantic image handed down by the collective memory and nourished by cinema and literature. A place of nostalgia impregnated of ghosts of an eclectic international community of artists and western writers, from Kerouac to Ginsberg, from Matisse to the Rolling Stones, to end with Paul Bowles, whose name is is connected to Tangier forever. Today, reduced to few ghosts, the camarades of Tangier, poor African people looking for a boat towards the mirage of the Europe Fortress, the energetic atmosphere of Tangier is casting towards new plans that should make of it the “Harbour of Africa”. Tangier is divided into an old city of medieval alleyways, the Medina, with the walled kasbah of the sultan, and a new city, a tantalising introduction to a culture so different from that across the Strait of Gibraltar. Far from the exotic postcards of traditional Morocco, Tangier’s architecture is unanexpected landscape of Moroccan old towns mixed with Mediterranean European harbours of Spain, France and Italy. After many years of shadows the city again become a great place to live.

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  • Tangier, Grand Soccò square, the heart of the medina.
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  • Tangier,  traditional, and historical, Cafè Tingis in the heart of medina, Petit Soccò square.
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  • Tangier,  traditional, and historical, Cafè Tingis in the heart of medina, Petit Soccò square.
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  • Tangier, the  Kasbah.
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  • Tangier, the casbah.
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  • Tangier, the casbah's gate.
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  • Tangier, the medina, in the back the casbah.
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  • Tangier, the medina, in the back the casbah.
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  • Tangier, the medina, in the back the casbah.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, harbour view from kasbah's walls.
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  • Dar el-Makhzen, the old Sultan's mansion, now a museum.
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  • Tangier, the casbah.
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  • Tangier, the casbah.
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  • Tangier, the casbah.
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  • Tangier, the casbah.
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  • Tangier, the casbah.
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  • Tangier, the casbah.
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  • Tangier, the old european buildings of the medina.
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  • Tangier, Marhaba restaurant in a old Moorish style once owned by El Glaoui, the last Marrakech pasha.
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  • Tangier, Marhaba restaurant in a old Moorish style once owned by El Glaoui, the last Marrakech pasha.
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  • Tangier, Marhaba restaurant in a old Moorish style once owned by El Glaoui, the last Marrakech pasha.
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  • Tangier, Marhaba restaurant in a old Moorish style once owned by El Glaoui, the last Marrakech pasha.
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  • Tangier, Marhaba restaurant in a old Moorish style once owned by El Glaoui, the last Marrakech pasha.
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  • Tangier, Marhaba restaurant in a old Moorish style once owned by El Glaoui, the last Marrakech pasha.
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  • Tangier, Marhaba restaurant in a old Moorish style once owned by El Glaoui, the last Marrakech pasha.
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  • Tangier. Hafa Cafè, with view on the Straits of Gibraltar, longtime loved by writers and artists.
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  • Tangier. Hafa Cafè, with view on the Straits of Gibraltar, longtime loved by writers and artists.
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  • Tangier,  tailor shop in the medina.
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  • Tangier,  tailor shop in the medina.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina' market. Tailor.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina.
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  • Tangier,  European buildings of the old city.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market..
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market..
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market..
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market..
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market open till late night..
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market open till late night.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market open till late night.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market open till late night.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market open till late night.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market open till late night.
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  • Tangier, fish market.
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  • Tangier, fish market.
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  • Tangier, the old city, photographer's shop.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina. Carpets washing.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina. Carpets washing.
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  • The well-known Majid's, probably the best traditional shop of Tangier.
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  • Tangier, the well-known ?Terrasse des Paresseux?, ?lazy's Terrace?, anytime full of people. Many are migrants waiting a way to tthe "Europe fortress".
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  • Tangier, the harbour square.
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  • Tangier, the harbour. Fishermen.
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  • Tangier, the harbour. Fishermen.
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  • Tangier, the harbour. Fishermen.
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  • Tangier, El-Minzah hotel, once a Moorish style mansion build by lord Bute. In the thirties was a smart set for spies, bilionaires and adventurers. In the foreground the trucks waiting for the ferry sailing to the Spain.
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  • Tangier, El-Minzah hotel, once a Moorish style mansion build by lord Bute. In the thirties was a smart set for spies, bilionaires and adventurers.
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  • Tangier, El-Minzah hotel, once a Moorish style mansion build by lord Bute. In the thirties was a smart set for spies, bilionaires and adventurers.
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  • Tangier, the beach. In the back the ferry to the Spain. The beach here is the place for a different life dreams.
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  • Tangier, the beach.The beach here is the place for a different life dreams.
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  • Tangier, the beach.The beach here is the place for a different life dreams.
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  • Tangier, the beach.
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  • Tangier, real estate growing  near the beach.
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  • Tangier, the beach.The beach here is the place for a different life dreams.
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  • Tangier, real estate growing  near the beach.
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  • nuovi quartieri residenziali lungo la spiaggia.
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  • Tangier, Cervantes theatre façade, closed from longtime ,was popular with Spanish community of Tangier.
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  • Tangier, El-Minzah hotel, once a Moorish style mansion build by lord Bute. In the thirties was a smart set for spies, bilionaires and adventurers.
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  • Tangier, El-Minzah hotel, once a Moorish style mansion build by lord Bute. In the thirties was a smart set for spies, bilionaires and adventurers.
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  • Tangier, El-Minzah hotel, once a Moorish style mansion build by lord Bute. In the thirties was a smart set for spies, bilionaires and adventurers.
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  • Tangier, Riad Tanja, a small hotel de charme on the walls of the old city (?medina?).
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  • Tangier, Riad Tanja, a small hotel de charme on the walls of the old city (?medina?).
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  • Tangier, Riad Tanja, a small hotel de charme on the walls of the old city (?medina?).
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  • Tangier, Riad Tanja, a small hotel de charme on the walls of the old city (?medina?).
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  • Tangier, the casbah.Behind the gate the Spain's coast.
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