40 km south of Tangier up to Assila tourist city, which descended to call out the word « Assila » Arabic which rise above the city...
40 km south of Tangier up to Assila tourist city, which descended to call out the word «Assila» Arabic which rise above the city Alqirtagnih antique «Zile», or «Zieles.»
Famous Assila two-fold: first, a spokesman for beauty in all languages, and the second attached to her family in literature and poetry as much as they relate to the fishing and trade. But still love literature and poetry common denominator between all of the inhabited or going through .. The synonymy between Assila name and the word culture has become something known since the first cultural season, which was held in 1978 and so far .. It is the point of moving them creators, critics and intellectuals and people of art and thought leaders in all kinds of knowledge.
Painted on the walls of the city paintings by international artists and suspended in alleys finest paintings on canvas. It is «Alqriqih» you can enjoy the sunset where converge the red rays in a wonderful harmony with the Atlantic waters, near the Assila beach attractive organize meetings to discuss music issues and assets of melodies and rhythms and the role of the Arabs in this field, namely that culture is no longer a luxury with Assila as it turned out to be like water Air and accessible to everyone .. To the extent that pleased the people of Assila poetry and art .. happy to embrace their visitors from Arab and foreign tourists .. and all of knocking on the door of their city Arabian horses.
Assila jewel of the Moroccan city of North North necklace, jewel Ocean, Oommeltqy Arab culture, are the names of the other many and varied, launched on the quiet city of Assila elegant, parked on the Atlantic Ocean beach with meekness and stillness. This city has seen over three decades, significant changes at the level of infrastructure and public services and forms of urbanism, and was able to turn into a cultural and tourist important pole, thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit that characterizes its inhabitants and their inhabitants. Where thousands of intellectuals pilgrimage every year.
The history of the emergence of Assila city to more than two thousand years. It has landed the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, before they turn into a Roman fortress bearing the name "Zieles" within forty kilometers south of "Tunjas". In the tenth century, it gave the Normans of Sicily and settled, and occupied by the Portuguese in 1471 AD to supervise through which commercial ships across the Atlantic Ocean. After the Battle of the Three Kings, which took place in 1578, in which the King of Portugal San Sebastian fell dead in the battle of Valley stores, the city has been able to get rid of the Portuguese occupation at the hands of Ahmed Mansour al-Saadi year 1589 CE, but quickly fell to the Spaniards who occupation continued her to until the year 1691, the year that the Sultan Moulay Ismail returned to the influence of the upper state.
We must each of this palace visited the stand aghast impressed by the beauty of its construction, and Baha Amranh, and Luster inscriptions emanating from the Arab-Islamic art Assila, has been restored in the mid-nineties to become a space that embraces some of the activities of Assila cultural season, it held its workshops graphic arts, sculpture, engraving and some technical evening. And a few meters from the door of the Casbah, there is Hassan II Center for International forums which was originally a warehouse for grain, before being rebuilt in accordance with the beautiful architecture, and turns to the official headquarters of the Foundation Assila forum and space to embrace thinkers, writers and intellectuals and artists from different regions of the world through the works accredited University Ibn Abbad Summer in the framework of the activities of the cultural season.
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