Showing posts with label Morocco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morocco. Show all posts

23 November 2004

Skala Bridge in Essaouria (Morocco)



" ... the white city floating in the sea "

"... a walled city, magic and inaccessible "




Essauoira according to 
Alberto Ruy Sánchez

19 November 2004

Bridge over the Ourika River near Setti Fatma (Morocco)


“To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.”

Edith Wharton

15 November 2004

Skala Bridge in Essaouria (Morocco)



"Essaouira is an exceptional example of a late-eighteenth century fortified town, built according to the principles of contemporary European military architecture in a North Africancontext. Since its foundation, it has been a major international trading seaport, linkingMorocco and its Saharan hinterland with Europe and the rest of the world."

Essaouira described as
 UNESCO World Heritage Site

20 November 2001

Suspension bridge over the Ourika River in Dou Ouzrou (Morocco)

“…Mi alma, por yo no sé que fenómeno de lejano atavismo, o de preexistencia, se ha sentido medio árabe. El quejumbroso gemir de las dulzainas de África, los atabales y los albogues de hierro,evocan en mí una especie de insondables recuerdos…me sume en ensueños de un pasado misterioso, hace vibrar en mí no sé qué fiebre latente oculta."

Pierre Loti