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Characterized by the old city of Tangier its outstanding character dating an important stage of the city's history when it was subject to international assignment for more than half a century. Aftnjh city can never talk about the present without talking about her past Interestingly, past combines drowning deep in the prehistoric with legends of Hercules and Atlas , and between dating the Arab-Islamic prosperous , and one of the most important stages of the Rosary crossing Muslim armies toward land Iberian , and spreading Islam which lasted there in the state of Andalusia for eight centuries . Then the international stage that have undergone the Tangier for guardianship multiple races . Access to the ancient city is via several ways, the most important of Liberty Street , where the hotel « Manzah »
famous , which was built by Lord House to hold the thirties of the last century , the day the hotel which receives celebrity politics, art and culture, guests and tourists distinct from Morocco and abroad. In Liberty Street adjacent memories with tourist attractions. There are French Consulate that are inevitable for any visitor to the city to visit . It is an architectural masterpiece can not be found on many models of them in the world . The around the consulate Garden Palace is like a virgin jungle with trees rare and in time. In this consulate took a lot of the events of history . Opposite the Palace of Consular no that the cafe myth , a cafe ' Paris ' , who lived with tales artists and celebrities than experienced by any other cafe in Morocco as a whole. Paris cafe appeared with the advent of the first heralds of the new city built by the international system outside the medina , then turned over the years to guests Tangier Shrine of artists , politicians , writers and bohemians , and also spies and Alavaqan the coming from all parts of the world . In this cafe sat American writer Tennessee Williams with son countrymen Paul Bowles , together with Frenchman Jean Genet , a writer rebel to the end of his life , along with Mohamed Choukri , who chronicled this stage in the many books about the character of the narrative sculpture and personal self . Near Paris cafe still Square to the meeting place for all the next day around Tangier , which residents call « sur Almekazin » , ie « zombies Wall » , because it was a rest station for travelers to and from Tangier at all times . This arena is still to this day receiving visitors Tangier station , as people ponder the nearby mountains parked NATO Strait of Gibraltar , it is the Spanish mountains of the south , which is still tempts many to leave him even rode the risks for the sake of it. Traffic across Liberty Street leads straight to the Market Square Barrani , known as the « Debra market » . This scene was over time a big market for the city's residents and visitors , and to perform Hajj Almtdon every week , which is in addition to that, and after that switched from one market to the public square , featuring a lot of historical monuments , the most important House HCP , a building that was home to the headquarters of the ruling international Tangier , this building is still today one of the historical monuments, the most famous tourist , especially the existence of a huge and giant trees in her garden , which is estimated hundreds of years old . It tells the trees alone the history of this exciting city . Near Dar HCP can easily see the drawers in the form of a platform overlooking the arena , it is the platform that gave them the late King Mohammed V his famous speech in 1947 , in which the student directly to the independence of Morocco, said his famous « what is lost right behind student . I chose the Moroccan Sultan and then Tangier to demand the independence of Morocco because it enjoyed this city of a large margin of freedom , and because the Sultan Mohammed V wanted to draw his speech around the world , was Tangier city best suited for it. On a high near market Albrani no former headquarters of the international police , and directly overlooking the market square . In this place there each day hundreds of tourists snapping pictures of the anniversary , it 's carrying images from the pages of history rather than bear the colors . Near the headquarters of the International Police visitors can find a completely different fun , a shopping from these small shops displays where Bedwion from the outskirts of Tangier all kinds of goods for traditional clothes . These villagers , who are called « Mixer » , they are in the vast majority of the assets of Andalusia settled in Tangier and its environs , as settled in other parts of Morocco, and sell forms of rare clothing and footwear ,
some dating back to centuries ago , and exactly to that period , which was their grandparents do not still living in Andalusia before being expelled hundreds of thousands of them after the fall of Granada in 1492 .
Near this market there is one of the oldest mosques in the city , is the largest mosque Bouabid Sir , proximity there are graves of various nationalities , Muslims and Christians of all races , it chronicles the graves of distinguished history of Tangier that the world has embraced her dependents for a long time . On the other side of the market square Barrani A large corridor in the form of a curved door , that door that leads to the examination of the medina to Tangier ' real ' by People for centuries before that show the new city on the surrounding hills . Door examination leads left to the Casbah old and to the rest of biology antique in the old city , where high overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar , and there is a rock ledge where there are graves Romania carved in the rock, and proximity to the plateau Marchand , which was during the International Covenant region favorite Bourgoazia and Aritocrat city from different races.
It expresses the door of the examination, and descended to the right to find a different view . There are dozens of currency exchange shops which receives hundreds of tourists every day, and proximity to stores of gold and silver in the dozens , so called « by goldsmiths » , proportion of to shapers gold , then the number of bazaars that offer all forms of traditional Moroccan industry . It is a commercial area with distinction , and people call ' home market ' , or ' internal market ' , to distinguish them from market Albrani , or foreign market . And lead by goldsmiths to the Square is a symbol of Tangier , a ' Central Square ' , or ' the central square , which was the heart of Tangier International . In this arena the history of Tangier as concentrated treasure crammed in a box, where hotels and cafes of all kinds, restaurants , residences , mosques, churches and synagogues , e- shops , banks and stores .. The heart of Tangier International , and is still the case today , but in a different way
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