Tangier
(Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵏⵊⴰ) is a city located north of the Kingdom of Morocco on
the Mediterranean coast, has a population of 1,065,601 people,
according to the census of population and housing in 2014, and thus the
sixth largest city in Morocco in terms of population. Tangier
is characterized by being the confluence between the Mediterranean and
the Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean points, on the one hand, and between
the European and the African continent on the other. Tangier is the capital. Tangier-Tetouan Al Hoceima, one of the most important cities in Morocco. The
city is considered one of the most important centers of commerce and
industry in North Africa, it is also an important economic pole to the
large headquarters institutions and enterprises, and one of the most
important political, economic, cultural and educational centers in
Morocco. The
history of the city of Tangier is very rich due to it being the center
of the confluence of many Mediterranean civilizations. The city has been established to be the capital of Berber and Phoenician port during the fifth century BC. And several successive civilizations have influenced this city began Greeks and the end of the Islamic civilization.
Architectural monuments to Tangier:
Fences:
Extends
along the 2200 m, fenced so the five boroughs of the city antique: the
Kasbah, dar lbaroud, jnan kbtan, Wade Ohrdan, and ait iddar. City
walls were built on several bitter solution, which is very likely that
they were built above the city walls ROMANIAN "Tingas." Chronicling
the current Portuguese fences period (1471-1661m), but she knew several
restoration and reconstruction works and immunization English during
the period (1661-1684), then a period Alsla clay Aoyen who added several
fortifications in the 18th century, where the group supported the walls
of the towers: borj naam, borj amer, borj dar dbagh and borj salam. As
they opened the 13 sections including: bab lkasba, bab marshan, bab
haha, bab labhar, bab al assa, bab arraha, and bab almarssa.
kasbah Ghaïlan
Located on the right bank of the valley of the throat, on the road leading to the Malabata east of the ancient city. It was built around 1664 AD, and linked its name to Greens Gillan, commander of the Islamic Jihad movement against the British colonialists who occupied the city of Tangier between 1662 and 1684 AD. Castle is available on the defensive arbitrator, is a quadriplegic Surin ribs immunized by two towers more closely spaced and prominent, large urban Ttosthma door.
Syrian mosque
Founded by a group of Syrian families to commemorate the participation of the Moroccan war the Golan.
Museum of Contemporary Art
This
newest museum in 1990 and has a dedicated permanent display 276 square
meters spread over five halls and lobby of the wing as well as
determined to British engineering-style garden. The
museum building is one of the unique architectural monuments in Tangier
where constructed in 1898 on the British engineering fashioned to
respond to the requirements of the Protocol on the grounds that the
building was the seat of the British Consul General in Morocco. It
was imperative that combines the durability and luster and aesthetic
design and engineering, with a display area of about 270 AD at an
altitude of 5 meters of wood roof envelope pseudonym of gypsum ceiling
ornately tiled from green wood. Includes
an important collection of works by the Fine Moroccan museum gives a
panorama of contemporary fine movement in Morocco and faddish strides
made by starting with the work of the pioneers of the first generation
who crossed the road in front of the emergence of Visual Art Moroccan
Acts fifties stage shared by two trends: first, represented by the
"School of Fine Arts in Tetouan" and the second represents " School of Fine Arts in Casablanca, "then the sixties which announced
the birth of a new generation latest break with the remnants of the
colonial period phase, the museum also includes forms with an innate
tendency for artists of the seventies stage.
Souk Lakbir Square
A large yard stretch between the old city walls and streets of the modern city. Over a large area, including gardens called HCP gardens. Has
been the scene since the recovery of Tangier in the seventeenth century
is a weekly market meant vendors and buyers from within the city and
outside it (examination) area and may have seen the scene change in
activity after King Mohammed V's speech on April 194 709 which confirms
the support of the independence of Morocco and support for the resistance of Morocco.
Still
scene until today witnessing various commercial activities where the
spread on the shores of shops selling fruits and spices. And is a market for women in particular. Where most of the vendors are women, known as the market sold
souvenirs from the city of Tangier, especially the towel (bandanna)
mountain and Chechia, in addition arena overlooking the several
historical landmarks of the city of Tangier as a museum and the church
of San Vorbis Andrew and Sidi Bou Obeid mosque.
St. Andrew's Church
Saint
Andrew's Anglican Church was built in 1894 after a donation of Sultan
Hassan I their land for the benefit of the English community living in
Tangier. And this church characterized by its proximity to the Arab Islamic elements in their construction. Vberg bells silos built along the lines of the Moroccan mosques. While
making the church entrance with wood carved on the Moroccan way and
decorate the walls of the church were verses from the Bible written in
Kufic Moroccan. The backdrop of the altar decorated with red and brown logo rebels Andalus "no victor but Allah." And thus constitute a unique model of the Church of the juxtaposition of Islamic and Christian cultures. It also shows part of the religious tolerance experienced by the city of Tangier during the past two centuries.
The Caves of Hercules
The Caves of Hercules are natural caves of the Straits of Gibraltar located about ten kilometers from Tangier.
This
reference to the divinity of Greek Antiquity is related to the
mythology which situates in Morocco the Gardens of the Hesperides. In
these gardens, the three daughters of the Titan Atlas kept the trees
with golden apples protected by a dragon with a hundred heads. In his eleventh work, Hercules, son of Zeus, killed the dragon and seized the magical fruits that guaranteed immortality. Tired, he would have rested in these caverns.
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