Known as the North African Garden, the Kingdom of Morocco is located in northwestern Africa, west of the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Gibraltar, Str. Of and Spain, the land area of 460,000 square kilometers, the population of about 35 million, its economic strength in North Africa ranked third.
In the 40 's, a film of the same name made Casablanca famous. And when I was in the Rick Cafe in Casablanca, I seemed to have some time out of space, because it was a café that was copied in full reference to the scene of the Casablanca film.
The decorative style of the museum, the furnishings and the film clips played on the TV are filled with a strong nostalgic sentiment. After all, that exasperation's troubled love and later songs of the same name put Casablanca on the label of Eternal Love.
Casablanca Street View
As Morocco's largest city, Casablanca is not only romantic, but also known as the modern religious architectural miracle of the Hassan II Mosque. Almost all who come here will see its grandeur.
Hassan II Mosque
Farewell to Casablanca by car eastbound, we arrived at Morocco's second stop in the ancient city of Phillips.
When a very Islamic-style gate appeared in front of me, I learned that this is the ancient city of Laocheng District entrance "Blue Gate", it is embedded in the outer side of the blue mosaic and this name.
"Blue Gate."
The Millennium ancient city of Fez has a population of more than 1 million, houses mountains, narrow alleys crisscross, where people still maintain the original ecological life of medieval Africa. There are no cars in the city, and donkeys are still the main means of transport for residents. UNESCO listed it as a World Heritage site in 1981.
The ancient city of Fez overlooks
The old town is full of mosques, squares, craftsmen's workshops and small shops, streets such as Labyrinth, bent around, twists, no end. Locals are also said to be dizzy. The city's facilities are perfect, some people have not even been out of town for the rest of their lives.
Fez is also the birthplace of Moroccan craftsmanship, such as ceramics, mosaic processing and leather making. Among them, leather dyeing workshop continued the thousands of years of manual production method is very famous, hundreds of giant dyeing cylinder arranged together, colorful, very spectacular. But the strong pungent smell and sewage flow, let me worry about the pollution problem here how to solve?
Leather Dyeing Workshop
A 3-hour drive north from the ancient city of Fez is a Moroccan resort, the charming blue town of Sheffield Shevshavan. Along the way green Grass Yin Yin, the scenery is infinite, very far can see the top of the mountain scattered a blue and white complex, like a wonderland.
Sheffield Shevshavan was founded in 1471 at an altitude of 564 meters. Most of the doors, stairs and walls of the city are painted with splendid sky blue, coupled with the fresh air and simple folk customs adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea, constitute a bright and chic picture of the mountain city, so that countless visitors poured in.
Why Sheffield Shevshavan be painted blue all over the city?There is a religious claim that the Jews who first took refuge here used shellfish to make a natural pigment to paint the house blue, and the Jews believed that the blue that represented the sky and heaven also implied God's blessing.As a result, small town residents followed suit, and Blue became the main hue of Sheffield Shevshavan and remained so far.
The blue town under the sunset
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