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.

Ouarzazate: The casbat taourirt

Ouarzazate: The casbat taourirt

La city of Ouarzazate is home to one of the wonders of this hitoire Morocco is 1.5 km from the center, on the road to the city of Tineghir, this sumptuous residence of the Pasha of Marrakech is the proof that can only make beautiful buildings in the land. Together they form a whole fortified village is served by a network of alleys can visit what remains of the old Glaoui apartments that have retained their decoration painted stucco and cedar ceiling. The Casbah has to be a remarkable restoration.

Each spring, for a week, a folk festival takes place in the unique setting of the casbah.
At the crossroads between the valleys of the Draa, Dades and Ziz, Ouarzazate marks the beginning of the journey by dazzling the traveler with two magnificent kasbahs. Taourirt the former residence of the Glaoui, is staggering beauty. Towers emerging from a mass of houses close to each other, grow their slots to the blue sky and compete for first place in the sun.
That of Aït Benhaddou, located 30 kilometers from the city, is one of the most beautiful. Imagine a beautiful sand castle magically placed in a field of blossoming almond trees. So beautiful, so playing with the light that was the scene of numerous films, including "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Tea in the Sahara". Title of nobility, this is casbah Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Starting point of the road oasis, Ouarzazate is also the point of arrival of the cultures and crafts. In the souk on Sunday, are profusely henna, roses, cumin, sage distilled off Berber pottery, carved stone objects, blankets and carpets deemed Ouzguita, blue, or yellow gold, drawings geometric.
An ideal, Ouarzazate provides a wonderful relaxation in the hotels, all splendid. Generous, hospitable, exotic, she prepares to smooth sensations extreme desert.

Oualidia: The charm of a seaside resort

Oualidia: The charm of a seaside resort


Cooperating and Moroccans especially enjoy this charming resort. The city is also known for its seafood, especially oysters famous Oualidia. Its good hotels are a nice step on the coast.


Around Oualidia

Oualidia is a few miles a part from Safi, the largest fishing port in Morocco known for its sardines, it also exports phosphates, textiles and ceramics. The traditional Moroccan Market in medina is good place to shop for Moroccan pottery, decorated vases and tiles, Moroccan tajines, plates and other traditional Moroccan artifacts that are cheap compared with destinations like Marrakesh.
National ceramics museum has a collection of traditional sculpted, molded and engraved Moroccan ceramics and It is located in the 16th century Kechla Citadel built by the Portuguese, who occupied Safi from 1508 to 1541.

Oualidia Accommodation

Riad Dar Beldi, douar moulay adessalam, Oualidia, +( 212) 6 62 06 18 65
This Riad is a charming family owned Moroccan guest house with an interior gardens and courtyards, owner lives in premise.

La Sultana Oualidia, Parc a huitre 3, Oualidia, +(212) 5 24 38 80 08
La Sultana is a small luxury hotel, it is a bit expensive, and it is situated  in a good location surrounded by the most breathtaking natural beauty, and offer views over the lagone.

 According to the New York Times: “It’s just about communing with nature: fishing, surfing, kayaking or birdwatching,” said James von Leyden, a British expatriate who built a house overlooking Oualidia’s lagoon, which is filled with pink flamingoes, migrating herons and the occasional surfer.

Mr. Von Leyden and his family spend about four months a year at Villa La Diouana, their charming riad on the sea; the rest of the year it is rented by savvy Morocco insiders, like the French handbag designer Laetitia Trouillet.

The British writer Danny Moynihan and his wife, Katrina Boorman, an actress, fell so in love with the area that they bought property in 2004. This year they are completing an eight bedroom eco-property. (It will also be available to rent.)



The kasbah of El Walid. This seaside village is named after its founder, Sultan Walid El saadien. There he built in 1634, a kasbah designed to defend the access port located in the harbor.
Swimming. Two half-moon shaped dunes with a rock in the middle, close the lagoon. The beach is particularly safe even if the two inlets communicating with the ocean are dangerous.
Step cuisine. On weekends, the hotels are often fully booked. Apart from its site, the city is indeed famous for its oysters whose culture has developed in the fifties. Here you can enjoy many other shellfish such as clams or sea urchins.

- The old city walls are the remains that can be seen hanging on the cliff there.


Oualidia is a small coastal village located between the Moroccan cities of El Jadida and Safi and only two hours from both the pink city of Marrakesh and the economical capital of Morocco Casablanca.

The seaside Moroccan village of Oualidia is known for its bird watching, blue water beaches, farmed oysters, and distinctive village quietness. That’s exactly what’s so special about the town. Oualidia is a great place for beach sports lovers, kayaking, fishing, surfers and windsurfing will not be disappointed, the village gets a bit busier during summer months, but for the rest of the year, it is very much quit. Several type of birds can be found in the sea side village of Oualidia and it includes: avocets, cormorants, flamingos, redshanks, godwits. Birds are usually migrating from sub Sahara Africa and Europe.

For a great seafood meal, head to the the seaside fish restaurant L’Ostrea which serves Oualidia’s famous oysters. L’Araignee Gourmande is a great seafood restaurants as well, several types of oysters are farmed in Oualidia including French, Japanese oysters, and cupped oysters. Oysters were brought under the French protectorate in 1950s.

Discover a city imperial Meknes.

Discover a city imperial Meknes.


Meknes is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco. Under the reign of Moulay Ismail (1672 - 1727) it was a period of great prosperity and what remains of this era of grandeur and previous eras makes this city an important step of any trip to Morocco. Moulay Ismail Meknes chosen as the capital for reasons both strategic, political and geographical. Apart from its architectural obvious even to the most casual tourists, the Kasbah of Meknes is of singular importance to the fact that this is the first great work of the Alaouite dynasty, dynasty reigning in Morocco for over 300 years.

Ismaili Kasbah is an integral part of the history of Moroccan architecture. Monuments to the imagination by both their diversity and their apparent fundamental homogeneity. A number of doors especially highlighted on the decorative (Bab Mansour and Bab Laalej Errih) provide access to a palace or a subset or even the whole Kasbah. These are essentially those doors that justify the name "Meknes, the capital of beautiful doors."
A city of Meknes was founded in the tenth century by the tribe Zenete Meknassa native to Eastern came to settle in the region attracted by the fertility of the soil, abundance of water and the charm of these gardens. A part of this tribe also founded the city of Taza. Before its construction, there was a series of villages without walls, which coexisted peacefully in the agricultural life of Berber traditions.
The Almoravids in the eleventh century fortified town. The Almohads in the twelfth century and repopulate build mosques, hammams (baths Moors) ect ... The fourth Almohad Sultan An-Nasir Mohammed, the mosque was re-added it and a mihrab (circa 1203). Abou Youssef, built a Kasbah and Meknes became the residence of viziers.
In the thirteenth century, under the reign of Mérinides many monuments will be built by Abu Youssef Abou El Hassan. It is under the Merinids that will truly become a city Meknes Hispano Maghreb.

At the time of Saâdyines, northern cities lost their importance. It was not until the late 17th century and the advent of the second Alaouite sultan for the city of Meknes is placed at the forefront of the imperial cities. Moulay Ismail, who was the first governor, gave him an extraordinary development, it would make a great capital. It is therefore habitual residence and put in value and many grand buildings: Pali sumptuous mosques, madrasahs to harmonious ensembles, gates, ramparts imposing extensive gardens, parts of water. Following the death of Moulay Ismail in 1727 his son Moulay Abdellah, continued and completed part of the work undertaken by his father. Meknes is enriched with several monuments in the reign of Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah (1757 - 1790): he built mosques, mausoleums and palace of Dar Beida, currently occupied by the Royal Military Academy. The Alawites have continued to this day, to be builders of kings and the Kasbah of Meknes is therefore a particular significance.
Meknes currently includes an ancient city and a modern city separated by the valley of the river Boufekrane. The new town you can enjoy a nice overview of the Medina with its many minarets, its ramparts and imperial city.

Marrakech: The inauguration of the new stadium in Agadir waiting ....

Marrakech: The inauguration of the new stadium in Agadir waiting ....
Port city, a former fishing port and seaside resort recently, Essaouira is certainly the most pleasant resort on the Atlantic coast. Located on a peninsula swept by the trade winds from the ocean, Essaouira has an equal and temperate climate remarkably mild in all seasons. Its traditional and cultural art treasures. And its splendid beach of fine sand, offers the possibility to combine a cultural experience and a seaside



Today is going to be inaugurated the new stadium in Marrakech. An Ultra modern marks a revolution in the management of football stadiums in Morocco.
Marrakech stadium will be inaugurated with great pomp tonight during a gala two games: WAC-PSG and KACM-OL.

This enclosure has the specificity to be managed by the SONARGES, the national implementation and management stages. A public body that aspires to make this point, but also the other speakers present construction, real centers of life.
"The SONARGES was created with the specific aim to support the comprehensive upgrade that knows the sport sector in Morocco. It is a state-owned company with a Management Board and Supervisory Board, chaired by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Moncef Belkhayat. Our role in building, construction, management and operation of sports facilities of the department, including the major stages of Tangier, Marrakech and Agadir and also Casablanca. Tangier, Agadir and Casablanca term). "It is in these terms that Khalil Benabdallah, CEO of the SONARGES confided Moroccan Morocco Hebdo magazine.
And added: "Our work is also put spaces sports complexes available to companies who can organize events other than sports, the goal is to go beyond the sports stadiums to living spaces . It is also in this sense that our future stages are equipped with VIP lounges, conference centers, exhibition halls, shopping malls, eating places, cafes. The idea is to live stages all year, 7 days 7, outside of sporting events. You can go to the stadium to eat, shopping, to relax. Our goal is to create spaces for families where the stage became synonymous with happiness and not risk. "


If you are welling to get the best experience of Riads in Marrakech, exactely Riads in The Medina,
then the Riad you are looking for is Riad Iaazane, the best of medium size Riads in Marrakech.
You would difinitely love how simple and beautiful the Riad's architecture is.
It is a really peaceful and calm Riad even being just few minuts walk from the center of action in The Marrakech Medina.
Riads in Marrakech used to wondeful but expensive places, while this Riad is medium to cheap Riad in the center of Marrakech Medina.
It is even one the cheapest Riads in Marrakech when comparing the payment to all the services you get in Riad Iaazane, so it's one of the best valued Riads in Marrakech.
This Riad is managed by the same stuff who got classified the best Riad's stuff in Morocco for the year 2009 being voted by over 600 Travellers who have experienced and compared staying in diferent Riads around and falled in love with this riad by the end.

Staying in Riad in marrakech is just geting the soul of the local Riad experience in Morocco, as you go in touch directely with the real life of Moroccan people, as the Riads represent the original face of the Moroccan houses.

Not just this, Riad Iaazane provides you with Tours, Safaris, Day trips, Camel Rides all over the Atlas Mountains, waterfalls, the Sahara Desert, to see the best of sunrise and sunset in The Sahara desert sand dunes of Merzouga and Zagora or Mhamid El ghezlane.

The approach is innovative in Morocco. But it calls for a reflection on the economic model, vis-à-vis particular local football clubs who have not direct control of the stadium. Hence a potential shortfall could push some clubs refuse to change stage, for the simple reason that it is too big and unattractive in terms of financial returns.

Pearl of the Moroccan Sahara.. Laayoune

Pearl of the Moroccan Sahara Laayoune


The city is organized around a large square of futuristic design that combines all l administrations. The buildings were designed in a modern style respecting the traditional architecture Saharan Africa.
Laayoune was founded on the left bank of Oued Saguia El Hamra in 1937 on the place called El Aaiun Medelchi (freshwater spring) 25km from the Atlantic Ocean.


This city was at its foundation, space military barracks. It was transformed in the late 50s, in the city of colonization and services for military families in Spain.
During the operation SWAB (Franco-Spanish military operation intended to crush the Liberation Army of the Sahara - ALS), much of the Sahrawi nomads is sedentary in the city. This facility, in large numbers of local people, was not accompanied by the development of infrastructure and social services necessary for their integration into modern life.
the late 60s, the city is found divided into two parts: the modern city for the settlers and the native town and lacking everything living on the margins of modernity.
In the early 70s, the Spanish authorities then began a tentative process of social development but it was short-lived since it coincided with the end of the Spanish presence and the return of the city to the motherland .
From 1976 until today, the city is experiencing a development unprecedented metamorphosis and fully transforms the city and its people.
Laayoune today has nothing to do with the town in 1975. It is a modern city bustling with life and economic activities, social and cultural. This is the city we are pleased to present visually in this site.

This city was at its foundation, space military barracks. It was transformed in the late 50s, in the city of colonization and services for military families in Spain.
During the operation SWAB (Franco-Spanish military operation intended to crush the Liberation Army of the Sahara - ALS), much of the Sahrawi nomads is sedentary in the city. This facility, in large numbers of local people, was not accompanied by the development of infrastructure and social services necessary for their integration into modern life.
the late 60s, the city is found divided into two parts: the modern city for the settlers and the native town and lacking everything living on the margins of modernity.
In the early 70s, the Spanish authorities then began a tentative process of social development but it was short-lived since it coincided with the end of the Spanish presence and the return of the city to the motherland .
From 1976 until today, the city is experiencing a development unprecedented metamorphosis and fully transforms the city and its people.
Laayoune today has nothing to do with the town in 1975. It is a modern city bustling with life and economic activities, social and cultural. This is the city we are pleased to present visually in this site.

Door Moroccan Sahara: guelmim

Door Moroccan Sahara: guelmim

Guelmim Goulimine gold Guelmin spelled:  is a city in southern Morocco, Often nicknamed Gateway to the Desert (the door of the desert). It is the capital of the Guelmim-Es Semara Which area includes southern Morocco (south of the Souss-Massa-Draa region) and northern Western Sahara. The population of the city is 95.599 (2004 census), making it the Largest city in the region.  The N1 and N12 highways cross at Guelmim and link it to the nearby area of Souss-Massa-Draa.
It is home to a camel market. When hippies "Discovered" certain types of colorful African trade beads there in the 1960s, thesis Became known as "Goulamine beads" though They Were Actually Manufactured in Europe, Primarily in Venice, Italy.
Many of the Inhabitants speak the dialect Hassaniya.


  City guelmim Possessing significant natural advantages and a rich cultural heritage and diverse, Morocco has opted to promote the tourism sector in implementing a proactive strategy of tourism development could trigger a process of sustainable development and integrated
. In this approach the regional centers of tourism it also possessing significant natural advantages and a rich cultural heritage and diverse, Morocco has opted to promote the tourism sector in implementing a proactive strategy of tourism development could trigger a dynamic development sustainable and diverse cultural assets intégré.Des, development tours for sporting and adventurous (eco-tourism and Saharan tourism) distinguish the region of classical circuits other surrounding areas. Its desert nature must be based on the contrasts desert oasis and mountains (the Anti-Atlas full of natural-site: gorges, valleys and caves) and a coast resort and fishing (White Beach Guelmim beach in El Ouatia Tan Tan), the mouths of wadis (Chbika, Fatima and Umm Drâa), attended each year by thousands of migratory birds. In addition, the hot springs Dain Abainou constitutes an additional attraction for its healing ...