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<\/p>\nBathed by the waters of the western Atlantic coast, Essaouira is a Moroccan city that crowns the north of Cape Sim. It is considered one of the most beautiful provinces of the Marrakech-Tensift-Al Hauz region.<\/p>\n
The approximately 70,000 inhabitants of Essaouira focus mainly on fishing, as fishing in this city is a major deal, a vibrant and vital part of the local culture, although its economy is based as well on the textile and wood industry.<\/p>\n
Unesco declared its Medina and historic center as a world heritage site.\u00a0The beauty of the place, with the peculiarities of the natural environment that surrounds it, is the tourist attraction for thousands of visitors who choose it as a holiday destination, especially in summer.<\/p>\n
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Known as “the city of the wind”, Essaouira welcomes on its beaches numerous windsurfers<\/strong> from all over the world.<\/p>\n The most interesting event that the city offers is undoubtedly the Gnaoua Festival of Essaouira<\/strong>, a festival of music and culture that takes place annually in June and that attracts visitors and people from all over the world.<\/p>\n If you visit this wonderful city, while walking through the wide streets of its Medina you will discover many artisan workshops, bars and small shops, a totally curious world after passing one of its three monumental doors (Bab Sb\u00e2a, Bab Marrakech and Bab Doukhala<\/strong>). Let yourself be impressed by wheelbarrows pulled by mules that are the only means of transport still used in this area of \u200b\u200bthe city!<\/p>\n Three must-see places to visit in Essaouira are the Clock Tower<\/strong>, Ibn Youssef<\/strong> (the largest mosque in the city) and the market of Souk el Jdid<\/strong>. These places will make you fully experience the wonders and peculiarities of this port city. Bathed by the waters of the western Atlantic coast, Essaouira is a Moroccan city that crowns the north of Cape Sim. It is considered one of the most beautiful provinces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[2],"tags":[52,61,58,59,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arganiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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