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Asilah is the painted town — a whitewashed Atlantic medina south of Tangier, where every summer artists cover the repaired walls in fresh murals and the Moussem festival brings writers and musicians from across the Arab world. The ramparts look straight onto the sea, the alleys are clean and quiet, and the light off the ocean is the reason the town keeps drawing painters. Phoenicians, Portuguese, and Moroccans all held this coast; the whitewash is the layer that lasted.
This is for the traveller who wants an Atlantic medina you can walk in an afternoon — calm, creative, family-friendly. It is not a surf town or a party town; its art is gentle, and so is its pace.
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- Asilah to Tetouan: road guide
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