Discover Tangier:
Where History Meets The Sea
Getting Around
Tangier, like most Moroccan cities, consists of a Medina and a Modern City, that makes it very easy to move around. Grands taxis (Big Taxi) can carry up to six passengers; they are quick and efficient and are a good value for money. Petit taxis (Small Taxi) can be caught almost anywhere in town. They may not carry more than three passengers and are metered. Petit and Grands taxis increase their rates at fifty percent after 8pm at night. City Buses are very useful; they operate between the train station, Grand Socco and the Cave of Hercules.
Tangier is a city of exacerbated inspiration power. It was fed through centuries of history and legend, making the city a great creative space that hosted the great names of painting and literature.
Hard to be something else than cosmopolitan, this is the note that we conceive after looking closely to Tangier and its geographical location at the crossroads between the north and the south. It overlooks the sea, in the particular point where the Mediterranean Sea meet with the Atlantic Ocean.
Various cultures, nationalities, religions and languages are intertwined it this particular city. Its streets have allowed and still welcome conversations in Arabic, Berber, Spanish, French, English, Hebrew and other modern languages of our world. Evidenced by its Medina with Hispano- Moorish buildings, museums, flower gardens, high alleys etc. Added to this, its charms that inspired famous artists: painters, poets, novelists, film charms that inspired famous artists: painters, poets, novelists, film charms that inspired famous artists: painters, poets, novelists, film makers…
Tangier... the mythical
Crossroads of civilizations, the history of Tangier began 4000 years ago with Greek mythology and the 12 labors of Hercules. The legend says that Tangier (Tingis) was founded by Tinjis and Antaeus. The tomb of Antaeus was set over a hill near Tangier, called Charf. After a Phoenician presence, from which two small cemeteries remain, the city was founded in the fourth century B.C. by the Carthaginians who established a counter named (Tingis). In 146 B.C, during the fall of Carthage, the city is attached to Mauretania and became a Roman colony (Tingis) related to the province of Spain. Tangier becoming such an important city, was made, in the third century, capital of the Mauritanian colony; ‘’Tingitane’’.
Tangier... the crossroad
Tangier spreads a magnificent bay at the foot of green hills. As waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic intertwined at the foot of Tangier, it also combines the European, Arab and African cultures. A blend that surprises its visitors. Polyglot and friendly people, a mild climate, a wide beach and a lush Mediterranean vegetation make the city of Detroit a tourist destination to visit again and again.
Along the coast stretched over the Corniche, Tangier undergoes a structural metamorphosis in recent years. As part of the Tangier-Metropole project, it’s a whole new infrastructure that will be constructed there, including parking, a renovation of the seaside area, and especially the addition of seaside touches on its ledge-rich lots of potential. The project is an extension of the previous one, already set up in the port of Tangier city. The latter has a discreet vow to upgrade Tanger to align it with the most beautiful marinas in the Mediterranean, Puerto Banus as an example. It will set up a marina of 1400 rings, and a cruise port with three berths, in addition to modernizing the existing ferry terminal, to serve in tourism. The port also includes a residential part of high standards, consisting of several hotel units with four to five stars ranking.
A little further, stands the Tangier City Center, one of the first major integrated tourism projects of the 2000s. It includes two hotel units already belonging to the international Hilton brand, and a shopping center with dozens of planned stores including Aldo, Zara, Vero Moda… On the entertainment Level, the city includes a National film benchmark “Megarama” with it multi-cinema of eight projection rooms.
