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     A small town on the Atlantic coast about 45 minutes south of Tangier.  It has become a resort town, mainly for Moroccans.  It's as close to an artists' colony as Morocco has, and some have painted murals on the walls of the winding alleyways in the medina.  

 

 

"Old Medina" within the fortress on the coast...

 

 

Check out the home with the roof-top garden on the left...

 

 

Cafes along the corniche, outside the main gate to the medina.

 

 

 

 

 

Mosques just inside the main gate, in the background left...

 

 

Cafes along the medina's back wall.

 

 

 

 

 

Fishing boats under construction next to the harbor...

 

Typical "derb," or alleyway...


 

 

Home at the end of a "derb"...

 

 

 

 

 

Street along the wall above the sea...

 

 

Mural, farther down the same street by the seawall...

 

 

 

Mural...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mural on wall facing main square, about 30 feet wide...

 

 

Mural...

 

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