Morocco Travel Guide

PARK

CHURCH

MEDINA

Mendoubia Gardens

Offline map Google map Across the Grand Socco from the Cinema Rif is this large park full of
strolling couples and children playing football. The Mendoubia Gardens are flanked by an
elegant line of colonial buildings, perhaps the most attractive of its kind in the city. At the top of
the central hill is a monument flanked by cannons that contains the speech given by Mohammed
V asking for independence.

St Andrew’s Church

Offline map Google  map (    services   8.30am, 11am    Sun)    A   short   walk    down    Rue d’Angleterre

brings you to one of the more charming oddities of Tangier. Built from 1894 to 1905, on land
granted by Queen Victoria, the interior of this Anglican church is in Moorish style, with no
graven images, and the Lord’s Prayer in Arabic. Behind the altar is a cleft that indicates the
direction of Mecca; carved quotes are from the Quran. A real interfaith experience!

Outside in the church graveyard, there are some fascinating wartime headstones, including
the fighter pilot shot while escaping (which reads ‘Good Hunting, Tim’) and the moving sight of
entire downed aircrews, their headstones attached shoulder to shoulder. Caretakers Ali and his
son Yassine are always on-site and will let you in.

ART GALLERIES

Mohamed Drissi  Gallery of  Contemporary    Art

Offline map Google  map (   52  Rue d’Angleterre)   Housed  in  the former  British Consulate.

Galerie Delacroix

Offline map Google  map (   86  Rue de  la  Liberté;     Tue-Sun)   Exhibition  space   of  the Institut    Français.

Centre  Culturel    Ibn Khaldoun

Offline map Google  map (   Rue de  la  Liberté)    Exhibits    contemporary    art.

Instituto   Cervantes   Gallery

Offline map Google  map (   Rue Belgique)   Contemporary    exhibitions.

Medina

Offline map Google  map The medina  is  the top attraction  of  Tangier,    a   labyrinth   of  alleyways   both

commercial and residential, contained by the walls of a 15th-century Portuguese fortress. Clean
and well lit, as medinas go, the place is full of traveller’s treasures, from fleeting glimpses of
ancient ways of living, to the more material rewards of the souqs. The thing to do is to get lost
and wander for a few hours, although there are a few sites you don’t want to miss. Get as