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The beach
A beautiful & long thin sand beach stretching for 2 Km
as fare from cap Sim. Regularly visit by Moroccans in weekend
.she became virtually deserted on condition of move away. The
Atlantic winds blow regularly on Essaouira almost all the year,
so it’s not surprising that surfers come running from
all the word to take advantage of those favourable conditions.
You can rent a board; there is two tenants whit good material.
Also it’s very nice to take a little cup of the whit mint
in the beach restaurant & chalet terrace.
The port
Essentially consecrate to fishing, it’s one of the places
most animated in the city, especially after the boats return.
So the fish is sale by auction. A spectacle to not miss .we
could access to it by the customs post situated at the top of
the beach or by the medina’s door. The quays are transformed
in shipyard. You could see the construction of the boats all
in wood like they don’t do anywhere else. Their forms
are those of the old boats.
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The marine’s door
Erect in the 1184year or the hegira to link the city to the
port, build by an English traitor. He’s composed from
two columns in the form of a classic triangular front. The whole
has a greet class .a stairs allow sometimes the access to the
port skala’s wall summit& also climb to the top. The
cannons have Portuguese, Spanish & Flemish symbols. In this
astonishing surrounding Orson wells turn some scenes of his
Othello ho has to gut the golden palm in Cannes festival 1952.
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The skala
Cross the marine’s door, head for Moulay el-Hassan’s
place & turn to the left in the Kasbah’s street ho
follow the ramparts that we follow it in through to the bitter
end. Cross the passage under the vault to discover in the old
warehouse of munitions for crafts workshop. Theme oeuvres are
in thuya, incrusted in lemon’s wood, ebony or sometimes
in a thread of copper. Climb the ramp ho lead to a 200 m long
platform, protected from the ocean by the wall encircle by blocks.
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