Chefchaouen or Chaouen, is situated at 120 km south-east of Tangier. The blue and white city
with its crowned houses of red tiles is one the most charming cities of the north of Morocco. The
traditional landscape is remained intact and the rural and urban world are combined harmoniously.
Founded into 1471, there in Chechaouen took refuge a number of morisques expelled from Spain. Their influence is manifested
in the choice of the colours, manners, the patronyms, handicraft and the architecture of the city. Its architectural style is
a coexistance of a typically Moroccan médina with its mosques, sanctuaries, studdedgates and paved lanes of rollers and a
traditional spanish plaza with its arcades, tiled red roofs and banks decorated with zeliges around the fountain.
With its Kasbah recently restored and in its flowered gardens, you will taste one quiet moment under shade palm trees. In the
shops and the souks of the Medina, people sell handicraft, carpets of local manufacture and polished stones coming from the
surrounding hills to you. The pottery, the leather working and the work of the copper of this refined city are very famous.
