
Souk El Arbaa du Gharb
Gharb Market Town
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Souk El Arbaa is a market town in the northern Gharb plain, named — like several Moroccan towns — for the Wednesday souk that founded it. It sits in rich agricultural land between Larache and the Rif, a crossroads for grain, livestock, and the produce of the plain. There is little here for the sightseer: the town's identity is its market and its farms, and its streets fill and empty with the rhythm of the trading week.
This is for the traveller passing through the Gharb, or the one curious about working agricultural Morocco away from the tourist circuit. It is plain and unhurried; come for the souk day, then move on.
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