Tangier - Gateway to Morocco

Tangier exists at the intersection of two worlds — a place where continents, cultures, languages and ambitions collide and produce something that could not have been created anywhere else. Tangier is one of those cities.

It sits at the northwestern tip of Africa, fourteen kilometres from Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar, and for much of its history it has been precisely what its geography suggests: a threshold, a crossing point, a city that belongs entirely to neither shore.

I came to Tangier first in the mid-nineties, arriving by ferry from Algeciras on a bright July morning with a list of artisan contacts and no particular expectations.

When I got off the ferry, it was as if I had landed on a different planet, the ferry in those days took around 90 minutes, but the place I landed, as a 21 year old, was so utterly different from anywhere I had ever been to before, so utterly different from the Europe I had just travelled from. 

9 page downloadable PDF file, perfect for downloading onto your device or printing out and taking with you on your travels

Includes goggle maps of Tangier & sections on;

• History of Tangier

• The Medina and the Kasbah

• The Literary City

• Cap Spartel and the Caves of Hercules

• Café Hafa and the Art of Sitting Still

• A Honest Assessment

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