Essaouira — Marrakech's Atlantic Escape
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Essaouira — Marrakech's Atlantic Escape

Essaouira (the Atlantic coastal city 180 km west of Marrakech (2.5-3 hours by bus or private transfer) — the wind-swept fortified city on the Atlantic coast, UNESCO World Heritage since 2001): Essaouira (the name means 'the well-designed' in Amazigh) was built as a new city in 1765 by the Alaouite Sultan Mohammed III, designed by the French military architect Théodore Cornut, creating a European-designed medina with wide straight streets within a Moroccan context — unique in Morocco; Essaouira was the most important port in Morocco from the 18th to the early 20th century, a cosmopolitan city of Jewish, European, Arab, and Amazigh communities.

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