Essaouira is the Moroccan city with views of the Atlantic ocean have a long history, and architectural distinct. Essaouira city has seen in recent years a major tourist activity.
Dating back to the per-Christmas Phoenicians made it a bridge to dock at the island of Mogador, while they were traveling across the sea to Ecuador. Yuba second king of Mauritanian Tunjah completed the laboratory to industry extracted from shellfish - one of the types of mollusks, was issued by the Romans. Then settled by the Portuguese and sultans Tombs
Essaouira has heavily on many hours, fences charming and great historical monuments. This masterpiece by buildings full of archaeological inconsistent, cultural legacy of previous generations with modern buildings objective and we discover through walls, scaffold "la Sqala" huge doors.
Proved archaeological excavations carried out on the island and there are archaeological remains of the oldest pottery utensils dating to the second half of the seventh century BC. Archaeological research has shown that Mogador Island known vacuum period between the first and the fifth century BC, but the presence of some pottery pieces back to the fourth century BC, indicates the existence of trade relations between the island and the rest of Mauritanian cities in Morocco Tunjah old. Amazigh in the reign of King Juba II, I knew no matter how prosperous the island as the site was found to extract dyeing factories purple. Archaeological excavations showed the island during the settlement period to the borders of Romania the fifth century AD.
Since the first decade of the century and one of the twenty, Essaouira began to come out of his shell isolation, whether central or local government encouraging policies on investment in the tourism sector, and reflected in the appropriate infrastructure preparation of traditional hotels (kindergarten) or modern (classified hotels) and Restaurants level High and focus on the aspects of attracting tourists (water sports), also due to its geographical location between two electrodes outstanding fact giants in the tourism sector in Morocco (Agadir and Marrakech) Essaouira has assumed a prominent place and become part of the global tourist poles.
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