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Essaouira

Our beautiful Essaouira. In the 1764, a French prisoner of the Sultan designed its spectacular walls, bastions and broad streets. It is the home of Berbers, Arabs, Jews and Gnaoua — the descendents of slaves from the Sudan and Guinea

Today its perpetual tradewinds no longer bring Carthagnians and the Romans, but instead wind surfers from all over the world. A tolerant town, it was home to Jim Hendrix and the Living Theatre in the late 1960s. On this bastion, Orson Welles filmed his 1949 Othello.

And we keep going back. Here’s Carol with her Mom and Dad on a visit last August.

We loved strolling in a medina that has been closed to cars.

Here are Mom and Dad visiting the thuya wood craftsmen for which the town is famous.

Here's daughter Jo getting ready to take a stroll down Essaouria's endless crescent beach on the back of a friend.

Essaouira's fishing port is full of life and color.

The catch is served up in outdoor restaurant stalls along the seawall between port and town.

A foodie's paradise, Essaouira has a wealth of great restaurants.

Here are Jo and Jack at our favorite, Chalet de la Plage. We were served by a little old waiter we met when we first ate there thirty-two years ago.

Like Villa Maroc, most Essaouira hotels are old houses.

Riad El Medina is a merchant's house that dates from the 18th century houses.

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	Our beautiful Essaouira. In the 1764, a French prisoner of the Sultan designed its spectacular walls, bastions and broad streets. It is the home of Berbers, Arabs, Jews and Gnaoua — the descendents of slaves from the Sudan and Guinea
	Today its perpetual tradewinds no longer bring Carthagnians and the Romans, but instead wind surfers from all over the world. A tolerant town, it was home to Jim Hendrix and the Living Theatre in the late 1960s. On this bastion, Orson Welles filmed his 1949 Othello.
	And we keep going back. Here’s Carol with her Mom and Dad on a visit last August.
	We loved strolling in a medina that has been closed to cars.
	Here are Mom and Dad visiting the thuya wood craftsmen for which the town is famous.
	Here's daughter Jo getting ready to take a stroll down Essaouria's endless crescent beach on the back of a friend.
	Essaouira's fishing port is full of life and color.
	The catch is served up in outdoor restaurant stalls along the seawall between port and town.
	A foodie's paradise, Essaouira has a wealth of great restaurants.
	Here are Jo and Jack at our favorite, Chalet de la Plage. We were served by a little old waiter we met when we first ate there thirty-two years ago.
	Like Villa Maroc, most Essaouira hotels are old houses.
	Riad El Medina is a merchant's house that dates from the 18th century houses.