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At the septentrional point of Morocco where the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean join each other.
There are many international celebrities who were captivated by the beauty of its bay, the splendour of its Medina, and the brightness of its sun.
To name but only a few:
Delacroix, Matisse, Tenesse Williams, Jean Jenet, William Buroughs, Paul Bowles, etc all found Tangier a suitable place for refuge and escape. |
The city was under international regime between 1923 and 1956.
Tangier acquired the reputation of spying and smuggling centre and attracted foreign capital due to political neutrality and commercial liberty at that time. |
 At the city centre, there is the place of France and the Pasteur boulevard where you can find cafes, banks, shops, travel agencies and restaurants. The terrace known for idleness offers a pleasant sight on the Medina, the port and the Spanish coast. The evening, citizens and visitors to join the place to enjoy themselves.
If you are in search of exotism, visit the Grand Socco located at The entry of the Medina and discover the smells of spices and traditional perfumes.
You can see the bazars from the street of the Siaghines (jewellers). This principal axis leads to the Small Socco, centre of the old city, surrounded by small cafes and old hotels and towards where converge streets and alleys coming from the high city and the Kasbah.
Perched on hill dominating the Medina, the Kasbah is a place of the election of the snake charmers. The Mechouar, its principal place holds the Dar El Makhzen palace rebuilt in 1740 by the sultan Moulay Ismael. Now that it has become the museum of Moroccan arts, it contains a very beautiful collection of true treasures such as: Korans, precious fabrics, objects carved in wood or metal, and ceramics, etc...
 The museum of antiquities will enable you to discover The ancient history of Tangier. The American legation possesses works of great painters as well as old geographical cards, among which those of Leon the African. Lastly, in the Marshan district, secured by
splendid residences, you can visit the Forbes museum where are exposed military figurines reconstituing, the battle of Waterloo or the battle of the Three Kings (1578) which took place in the countryside of Ksar el Kebir, at hundred km. in the south of Tangier.
 Tangier, a city with multiple faces, offers a person who can see with the eyes and mind a multitude of colours, witnesses of a glorious past and prestigious future. Tangier is a city where as described Delacroix "one tests a pleasure which one can extremely well wish to test only once in a life time."
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