El Jadida, history of the city

In 1502, the Portuguese shipwrecked men built a small fort there; twelve years later, in 1514, the king of Portugal built a strong castle and a small agglomeration baptized Mazagan (Mazagão).


Where to sleep in El Jadida?


In 1541 after the loss, of Agadir, Safi and Azemour, Portuguese decide to concentrate all there their efforts in making of Mazagan an impregnable citadel.... During 2 centuries they succeeded in pushing back all the attacks.... But in 1769 the Sultan Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah attacks Mazagan and after 2 months of siege, the king of Portugal gives the order to leave the place. Before evacuating, Portuguese burn their houses and mine the bastions and ramparts... so that when the attackers enter Mazagan a series of explosions destroys the city. Although renamed El- Jadida ‘’the new one’’, the city remained in the state of ruins during almost 50 years, and it is only in 1820, on order of the Sultan Moulay Abderrahman that the old Portuguese city was brought to life.

Casablanca, the Ain-Diab seaside resort

Offers a pretty view on the ocean and the coast and has an arranged fine sand beach. Around it, villas, hotels, restaurants, cabarets and dancing clubs are the appointment of Casablanca habitants.


Where to sleep in Casablanca?

Asilah, history of the city

Balneal city, 46 km to the south of Tangier, with an old medina with white houses (the windows and the doors are painted in blue, yellow and green), girded with beautiful ochre ramparts built in the end of the 15th century by the Portuguese.


Où dormir à Asilah?

City with tumultuous past during more than two millenniums, invaded by Carthaginians, then by the Romans, and having resisted to the Norman attacks from Sicily in the 10th century.

Passed then under the domination of the Omeyades of Cordoba in 972, before falling under the Portuguese authority in 1471 (which came with a fleet of more than 500 ships and 30 000 men!...).

After the famous battle of the Three Kings in 1578 (with the death of the king of Portugal came the Spanish occupation, and it is only in the end of the 17th century that the sultan Moulay Ismail freed the city once again. In the beginning of the 20th century, Asilah will become the den of Raissouni, a famous gangster of the Rif region, which held to ransom the populations but will be finally driven out by the Spanish in 1924. They will remain Masters of the city until the independence.

Agadir, the Kasbah

Dominating the ocean of 236 m, it offers a remarkable sight on the city...


Where to sleep in Agadir?

The ruins of the old Kasbah, with its ramparts rebuilt after the earthquake, remain on the hill; impossible to escape the emotion when one penetrates in this immense necropolis. A 1746 inscription still decorates the entry gate: "Fear God and honour your king".