Esther

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Posted: 09 Jun 2017


Taken: 01 Apr 2017

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1/125 f/7.1 16.0 mm ISO 400

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Morocco
Chefchaouen
Chaouen
شفشاون/الشاون
market
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clothes


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Selling in the streets

Selling in the streets
"Chefchaouen is situated in the Rif Mountains, just inland from Tangier and Tetouan. The city was founded in 1471, as a small fortress which still exists to this day, by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami (a descendant of Ibn Machich and Idris I, and through them, of the Islamic prophet Muhammad) to fight the Portuguese invasions of northern Morocco. Along with the Ghomara tribes of the region, many Moriscos and Jews settled here after the Spanish Reconquista in medieval times. In 1920, the Spanish seized Chefchaouen to form part of Spanish Morocco. Spanish troops imprisoned Abd el-Krim in the kasbah from 1916 to 1917, after he talked with the German consul Dr. Walter Zechlin (1879–1962). (After defeating him with the help of the French, Abd el-Krim was deported to Réunion in 1926.) Spain returned the city after the independence of Morocco in 1956."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chefchaouen

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Gillian Everett, , have particularly liked this photo


7 comments - The latest ones
 Marek Ewjan Stachowski
Marek Ewjan Stachows…
very nice shot → interesting picture
friendly greetings → Marek-Ewjan
6 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
Thank you both.
6 years ago.
 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Nice and VERY colourful street scene.
6 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
Thanks, Jaap.
6 years ago.
 Léopold
Léopold club
Thanks for sharing with us this dreamy and magical village. I miss Chefchaouen....
6 years ago.
 Gillian Everett
Gillian Everett club
Interesting histtory, vubrant capture of the spirit of Morocco
6 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
Thanks Gillian.
6 years ago.

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