Morocco by pictures / tourism in Morocco

04/03/2024

Akchour ( chefchaouen)

01/03/2024

06/05/2023

Merzouga désert

11/02/2022

Agafai désert. Only 40 mn driving from Marrakech

11/02/2022

The beautiful handicrafts of Morocco

27/12/2021

Tinmel mosque
Tinmel is located along the important High Atlas mountain pass known as Tizi-n-Test between Marrakesh to the north and the Sous region to the south. It was the first capital of the Almohad movement founded by Ibn Tumart. He established his followers here in 1124 or 1125 CE and it became the base from which they launched attacks on the Almoravids who ruled the region at the time. A first mosque was built here around this time or shortly after.: 96 When Ibn Tumart died in 1130 he was buried here and a religious sanctuary and pilgrimage site subsequently developed at the site of his tomb. Abd al-Mu'min, who took over leadership of the Almohads after him, decided to build a new mosque nearby or on the same site in 1148, as confirmed by historical documents of the time: 96 – although the foundation date of 1153-1154 CE (548 AH) given by the Rawd al-Qirtas is still cited by many. The new mosque most likely replaced the existing mosque of Tinmel that was present here. Construction of the mosque thus began very soon after the conquest of Marrakesh (1147) and the beginning of construction on the Kutubiyya Mosque there. The Tinmal Mosque's architecture demonstrates many similarities with the Kutubiyya and was likely designed and built by craftsmen from Marrakesh.The mosque was smaller in scale than other major Almohad mosques as it was designed for a small town, but it was nonetheless a pilgrimage site and subsequent Almohad rulers were buried near here as well. Later, as the Marinids wrested control of Morocco from them, the Almohads of Marrakesh made a final stand in Tinmel until their last leaders were defeated and captured here in 1275.

The mosque eventually fell into ruin and was partly restored in the mid-20th century. Today the mosque is no longer operating but is open to visitors as a historic site, also making it one of the few mosque buildings in Morocco that is open to non-Muslims.

11/11/2021

Nice experience in the Sanddunes of Merzouga

05/10/2021

The Majorelle Garden (French: Jardin Majorelle, Arabic: حديقة ماجوريل‎ hadiqat mmajuril, Berber languages: ⵓⵔⵜⵉ ⵎⴰⵊⵓⵔⵉⵍ urti majuril) is a two and half acre botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was created by the French Orientalist artist Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years, starting in 1923, and features a Cubist villa designed by the French architect, Paul Sinoir in the 1930s. The property was the residence of the artist and his wife from 1923 until their divorce in the 1950s. In the 1980s, the property was purchased by the fashion designers, Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé who worked to restore it. Today, the garden and villa complex is open to the public. The villa houses the Berber Museum and has recently opened the Yves Saint Laurent Museum.

28/09/2021

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27/09/2021

Historically, The ancient city of Chechshawn is among Moroccan civilians of an Andalusian character. Starting at 1471-1609, A group of Muslim migrations who were expelled from Spain came across the city. These human migrations contributed to the urbanization of the city with significant social and economic development. It is obvious that the value of this city stems primarily from the privacy of the urban scenes of this mountain present. Their physical form is also a beautiful mix of architectural, artistic and aesthetic expressions resulting from the harmonious and reciprocal use of construction and decoration materials and techniques, and the creation of a symmetrical combination of the architectural, artistic and aesthetic expressions, which is the result of a symmetrical and synthesis of the products and techniques, and of the creation of a symmetrical and synthesis of the architectural and aesthetic use of the materials and techniques, and of Not to mention the harmony between sizes and colors that draws a distinctive and extraordinary picture in people's minds

20/09/2021

Merzouga

13/06/2021

نزهة الى منطقة اجوكاك تبعد بمئة كلم عن مراكش، مسجد تنمل معلمة تاريخية تروي حكايات 12 قرن من الزمن بجبال الأطلس.
Tinmel Mosque is a historical landmark that tells the stories of 12 centuries in the Atlas Mountains. https://youtu.be/qdVHAxCERMw

نزهة الى منطقة اجوكاك تبعد بمئة كلم عن مراكش، مسجد تنمل معلمة تاريخية تروي حكايات 12 قرن من الزمن بجبال الأطلس.Tinmel Mosque is a historical landmark that t...

29/04/2021

https://youtu.be/aO2X0b7ygMc

11/03/2021

Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community, immigrating to the region as early as 70 CE. Emily Gottreich contends that Jewish migration to Morocco predated the full formation of Judaism, as the Talmud was "written and redacted between 200 and 500 CE."[14] In accordance with the norms of the Islamic legal system, Jewish Moroccans had separate legal courts pertaining to "personal law" under which communities (Muslim sharia, Christian Canon law and Jewish halakha law-abiding) were allowed to rule themselves under their own system.

Particularly after the Alhambra Decree, many Sephardi Jews migrated from al-Andalus to the Maghreb as refugees fleeing the inquisition in Spain and Portugal.[15] They are referred to as the Megorashim,[16] while the Jews already in Morocco are referred to as the Toshavim.[17] Many Iberian Jews settled in Fes and Marrakesh.[15] In the following centuries, Conversos who had been banished to Iberian colonial possessions in the Americas and the Atlantic reclaimed their Judaism and also resettled in Morocco.[15]

In the mid 19th century, Moroccan Jews started migrating from the interior of the country to coastal cities such as Essaouira, Mazagan, Asfi, and later Casablanca for economic opportunity, participating in trade with Europeans and the development of those cities.[18] The Alliance Israélite Universelle opened its first school in Tetuan in 1862.[19]

After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and due to domestic strife in the 1950s, the next several decades saw waves of Jewish emigration to Israel, France and Canada. Moroccan Jews emigrated for a variety of reasons. Some have emigrated to Israel for religious reasons, some faced persecution, and others left for better economic prospects than they faced in post-colonial Morocco. With every Arab-Israeli war, tensions between Arabs and Jews would rise, sparking more Jewish emigration. By the time of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the majority of Morocco's Jewish population had emigrated.[20]

As a protectorate of France, parts of Morocco were heavily influenced by French culture, while the same is true of the portions of the country that belonged to Spain. Traditionally, the Jews were classified as being French-Moroccan or Spanish-Moroccan depending on where in Morocco they lived, and remnants of these classifications can be felt today. These differences are reflected in language, foods, last names and even liturgy.[citation needed]

Most Jews in Morocco lived in desolate areas during the late 1930s. This was in part due to increased taxation by the French protectorate. In 1936, Léon Blum, a Jewish man, was appointed as prime minister of France. This gave some Moroccan Jews hope that they may be able to become French citizens at some point, as Algerian Jews gained French citizenship with the Crémieux Decree. Algerian Jews were granted right of passage to France, and this only furthered the desire of Moroccan Jews to embrace French culture to the extent of the Algerian Jews.[21]

Early photographs of Moroccan Jewish families, taken in the early 20th century by German explorer and photographer Hermann Burchardt, are now held at the Ethnological Museum of Berlin.[22]

A small community of around 2,000–2,500 Jews live in Morocco today. However, in a rapidly increasing trend, young men from the community are emigrating to Israel and France.[23] As of 2017, according to The Economist, "No Arab country has gone to the lengths of Morocco to revive its Jewish heritage."[24] The country has restored 110 synagogues and has the Arab world’s only Jewish museum.[24] More than 50,000 Israelis visit Morocco annually.[24]

11/03/2021

Mosque architecture
Creation of the minaret
Mosques were built outside the Arabian Peninsula as Islam advanced. However, they remained in this nascent Islam, devoid of minaret.

It was under the Umayyads, in the eighth century in Syria that the first were designed. The square architecture of the Minaret of the Great Mosque of Damascus, built from 706, will be decisive for all the Maghreb.

It was conceived during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Al Walid I, in the then Roman city of Damascus, on the site of the former Saint John the Baptist Church, itself built on an ancient Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter.

Built on this place precisely considered as very holy, the minaret will take the name of Minaret Issa, in tribute to the Christians who lodged in their churches the first Arab Muslims for their devotions.

Minarets in the Maghreb
Oqba Ibn Nafi, an Arab Muslim general, will draw inspiration from the Umayyad mosques of Syria to build the Kairouan mosque in Tunisia at the end of the seventh century when he conquers the Maghreb. An architectural masterpiece, it is considered the ancestor and model of all those who followed it in the Maghreb and Al Andalus.

From Kairouan to Marrakech with the Koutoubia, from the Hassan Tower in Rabat to the Giralda in Seville, to mention only the most famous, the Maghreb minarets will integrate wonderfully into varied local landscapes of plains and mountains, deserts and oasis. These minarets took various forms, Islamic art inspired by local buildings and materials.

The models of the Alexandria lighthouse and the palaeochristian square towers of Syria served as a model on the southern Mediterranean rim until Andalusia.

In the Muslim East, the circular towers of Central Asia inspired the Seljuk conquerors in the 11th century.

In the Far East, the structure of local places of worship gave the air of pagodas and exotic temples to some of these mosques of a new kind. As for sub-Saharan Africa, they are of an astonishing and magnificent architectural variety.

07/03/2021

The first known inhabitants of Morocco, Berberères were the precursors in the craft sector especially in the work of wool (rugs), iron and silver (jewelry), various utensils and clay (pottery). After Islamization and the coming of the Arabs, other forms of craft have developed: copper work (various utensils, tables), wood, wicker, alfa and clay (pottery). This craft is almost all over Morocco and each region has its own specialities, drawn from the raw materials in abundance. But the most famous cities for their craft are Fès (leather, copper, silver, gold, fabrics), (leather, copper, carpet), (wood, rugs, silver) and (pottery). The regions of Agadir and Tafilalet also have a valuable craft. In addition, it is in the only city of Meknès that you can meet craftsmen who practice damasquinery (art of engraving on steel that allows to make vases, jewelry...)

29/01/2021

Moroccan riad : the riads are completely closed on the inside, isolated by high neutral and austere walls, with minimum openings to protect from heat and street noise.

Located in a medina, they usually have one floor due to administrative constraints; moreover, the architecture of some quarters provides special rules, for example, because of the proximity of a monument like a kasbbah (royal palace).

The riads organize around a patio - living room / - central dining room, as a foundation of an architectural structure in the shape of well-stained balconies turned on the interior, inspired by traditional Arab-Andalusian habitat, Persian heritage and Roman heritage (ancient Rome dwelling atrium).

01/01/2021

Happy New year

29/12/2020

Nice day ( agafai desert 30 km from Marrakech)

08/12/2020

Not far from Marrakech (oukaimden) ski station 🎿 🎿

06/12/2020

Ifrane ( Switzerland of Morocco) at this time ,😍🥰🤩😍🥰🤩

22/11/2020

"The engagement season in Emilshiel Morocco to immortalize love and marriage every year

The season is characterized by the manifestations of men to their wives

Date of publication: Monday 20 September 2010 KSA 17:17 - GMT 14:17

The village of southeast Morocco attracts thousands of local and foreign visitors to embrace an annual season for engagement, after the harvest period and with the beginning of the fall, in which dozens of the region's youth celebrate their marriage ceremony.

The engagement and mass marriage ceremonies during the Emilishle season attest to the rich social customs and behaviour, as well as a commercial and economic promotions that will help the villagers challenge poverty even once a year.

This engagement season, which will take place on September 23, 3 days near the Emiliel area, is a solid social tradition that has been traditionally traditionally traditionally traditionally tribes in those areas for more than 45 years.

Love season roots



The ritual of this popular ceremony with the engagement and wedding of young people from the Grand Mount Atlas tribes is the origin of a love story that conflicts views about the fact that it occurred. The region learned a mythical love story that brought together a young man called Mahwah and a beautiful girl called sharp from two neighboring tribes, but there is a great hostility because of grazing and barking problems.

The old story adds that the young people together went to the mountain to mountain to mount their misfortune because the tribes refused to marry and crying heavily until two small lakes were formed currently in the name of Isley and Tesselt, the groom and bride, were held in Millchel season.

In compensation for the refusal of the youth to marry the two tribes, the tribes intended to reconcile, to marry only among the region's youth and to hold a season for celebrations every year.

Hundreds of young people who are nominated to marry Emiliel season to complete the wedding procedures are decently dressed as a sophisticated hoodie dress, with girls showing only their faces, but they cover them when husbands are offered to greet them and kiss their hands in expression of love and appreciation.

Marriage among the youth of the region is publicized by distributing the presence as a fruit that is known for the south of the country, and as a good sign of the sweetness of marital life.

Marriage and trade



Paso Zane, an active in a development association in the same region, is speaking of the fact that the Emilshiel season is actually a collective marriage season that goes through popular and celebrated women's generosity through celebration and appreciation to those present this season.

This appreciation (adds Baso) is shown by rituals that the spouse or spouse of the girl during the course of the marriage is made to hold the Koran formally and legally, with the repeated of the disturbing district women who are pride, pride and patience in the marital home.

The social researcher in village development is Said Ahmed that the engagement season is not only a social occasion for engagement and wedding, but also a favourable opportunity to consolidate neighbouring relations between the region's tribes and the link of the uterine between their populations and their families.

This season (the Seeker refers) is a key means for the population of the villages and tribes in the Atlas, especially to bring the conditions and work concerns closer and to repair what has been ruined by life pressures, and harmony and hearts are clear among the people.

Amzel is invoked by the conclusion of reconciliations between some or some of these tribes on the margins of the engagement season, where the conflict between them is the result of differences and conflicts over the vital areas of Badi, such as land, field limits, grazing and water.

The engagement season was a springboard commercial and economic space, where demand and supply met enormously, and many occupations thrive on the margins of family celebrations with the marriage of their children and daughters over a full three days.

These occupations are linked to the sale of decorative materials for women such as henna, ankles, necklaces, different colors and shapes, and some parts of men's dress, such as turban and castles, as well as traditional and ceremonial products that make them gifts to new brides.

This season is crowded with a major traditional market, known as the presence of thousands of customers, especially from the region, who are keen to acquire the necessary stages of their homes before the fall and winter, where the weather is getting colder in the Atlas.

14/11/2020

Moroccan désert

07/11/2020

Tanger . ,🇲🇦🥰🥰🥰