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beautiful bays in the world.
The soft climate, a vast beach, a luxurious Mediterranean vegetation make an
attractive destination of it. Charmed, the foreign tourists come readily for a stay in
Africa, some remain there for long time period, indeed great names of history of art
and celebrities lived there: painters, writers, poets, directors, billionaires and
celebrities. 60 000 foreigners lived in Tangier in the years 1950, Today, they would
not be more than 2000.
Tangier enjoys of one strategic geographical position on one of the biggest
maritime crossroads of the world. Its port has full passenger traffic with each year
more than one million people. An enormous program of tourist management in
Tangier bay is actuality including impressive hotel facilities.
Situated at the point where the Atlantic and the Mediterranean converge, and
protected by one of the few bays on Morocco’s Mediterranean coastline, Tangier
has been frequented from the times of the earliest navigators of Antiquity. Legend
has it that it was founded by the giant Anteus, while Hercules, Alexander and
Ulysses are other figures closely associated with the city’s mythical past.
