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Essaouira Medina
UNESCO-listed 18th-century fortified port town
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Essaouira Medina
UNESCO-listed 18th-century fortified port town
The Medina of Essaouira, formerly Mogador, is a walled Atlantic port town in Morocco built from the 1760s by Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah. Laid out on a European grid by the French engineer Théodore Cornut, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001 as an outstanding example of a late-18th-century fortified town. Its ramparts, bastions and lively souks still frame daily life inside the old walls.
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The Medina of Essaouira was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001 as an outstanding, well-preserved example of a late-18th-century fortified European-style town built in North Africa. Founded in the 1760s as the port of Mogador and laid out on a regular grid by the French engineer Théodore Cornut, it combines European military architecture with Moroccan urban life.