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Asilah, Maroc 3-bedroom house for rent |
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Asilah is located 44 km south of Tangiers on Morocco's Atlantic coast, and has a permanent winter population of approximately 20,000, and a summer population nearly triple that number. This picturesque Andalusian town has Phoenician origins, and later became a medieval Portuguese trading post. Today, after centuries of virtual anonymity, Asilah prospered once again as a cultural centre. Since 1979, Asilah has become the site of an annual August pilgrimmage artists, writers, poets, musicians and guests from around the world to partake of its "Festival of Three Worlds", an Arab and African artistic and cultural event originally modeled on the Italian arts festival held annually in Spoleto.
This gathering of eminent writers, poets and artists from all over the Arab and African world is also part of a wider project -- that of architectural renovation. The project was initiated some 20 years ago, and has turned Asilah into a model for third world development.
Asilah also has a beach and has always attracted summer visitors from Europe, but since the Festival began in the late '70s, tourism has thrived in this town. Inside the medina, there is now a street filled with small shops offering everything from pottery, to silver jewelry to carpets to delight the visitor. But two blocks farther on you can still stop and watch children helping their fathers to carve wooden tables, or braid the silk passamanerie that decorates a man's djelaba or a woman's kaftan. |
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