Tetouan : The White Dove

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Tetouan is Moroccan City, Andalusian character of old neighborhoods, located in an agricultural area on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, between the heights of Mount Bunting series and the Rif Mountains. 

Tetouan is characterized by its ability to maintain the Andalusian civilization Tamazight, with constant adaptation with cultural tributaries contained them, enriched and characterized its history. 

The history of the modern city since the late fifteenth century, when the fall of Granada in 1492 at the hands of the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabel any since that was built by Granada Almnzera Sidi Ali, a name that has become a symbol inherent in the city of Tetouan. 

Thousands of Amazigh as well as Jews from Andalusia to settle in northern Morocco in general and on the ruins of the city of Tetouan, I knew this city prosperous stage of reconstruction and growth in various fields became a center for the reception of the Andalusian civilization. 

Military confrontations with Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where fleets of Tetouan was always pose a threat to the interests of the external enemy, have had a deep impact, especially in terms of the Urban Built gouge and walls to defend the city. 

As well as Morocco's trade with Europe (Spain, Italy and England) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they were all over the city of Tetouan, which was then the most important Moroccan ports where the ships flying between Tetouan and all of Gibraltar, Algiers, Marseille, Livorno.