The Wonderful Walls of Taroundant

Once upon a time – a few years into our travel journey – we made a pact that we would never revisit a place – the world was too big after all and there would never be enough time. That was in Lazise in northern Italy after a fab six week road trip. Anyway, the […]

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SELF-EXPLORING IN MOROCCO (AWAY FROM THOSE BIG CITIES!) – 3. TAROUDANT

The ramparts of Taroudant were built by the Saadian dynasty in the 16th century. They’d established the city in a strategic location between two mountain ranges from whence they could attack the invading Spanish and Portuguese armies along the Atlantic coast. Unusually for such a structure, those ancient red mud walls – some 7.5kms in […]

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