La Médina d'Agadir (Coco Polizzi)

Open-air craft medina in Ben Sergao

Built from 1992 by the Italian-Moroccan architect Coco Polizzi, La Médina d'Agadir occupies 5 hectares in Ben Sergao, ~4 km south of central Agadir on the Inezgane road. Built without rebar — only brick, hewn stone and wood — it functions as a working craft medina and open-air museum after the 1960 earthquake destroyed the original.

Localisation

Agadir

FAQs

A purpose-built craft village created in 1992 by architect Coco Polizzi to recreate the kind of medina Agadir lost in the 1960 earthquake. It is a working artisan complex — not a historic medina — built entirely with traditional Berber techniques.