Tangier is a very special city in Morocco. One of the very first to open up to foreigners, at a visual distance from Europe, it was for many years “international”, with several large European countries each managing a part of the city, with their own administration and post office.
From Tangier you can see Europe in good weather. Like all cities that are home to a large foreign-oriented port (Hanover, NewYork, Antwerp) Tangier is not exactly in Morocco.
The city has preserved from its “international” past beautiful monuments, richly decorated houses and pleasant to live in. Today, it is developing very strongly, thanks to the port and the free zone of Tangier Med. It is the nerve centre of commercial exchanges with Europe and the rest of the Mediterranean. It is also a base of entry into Africa for
It was in Tangier, the site of the oldest US diplomatic mission in Morocco, that Morocco arrested Confederate sailors and handed them over to the United States, thereby reaffirming its friendship with the US and recognising the legitimacy of the Union.
Tangier has been home to many painters who love Morocco and some of their magnificent paintings will be auctioned in London. An opportunity to admire them.
Major ecological projects are being developed in Morocco, focusing on wind and solar power. There is still a lot to be done, particularly in the development of organic farming, with certification
Winter is very rainy in Tangier, even more so this year, when the streets in the lower part of the city are flooded and impassable.
