Ouarzazate

Ouarzazate , of the Berber War-Zazat , “without noise”, in rear Arabic RTL ورزازات, is a city of the south of the Morocco which one calls also the carries of the desert , and the chief town of the province of the same name. Located at the meeting of the valleys of the Wadi Ouarzazate and the Dades wadi (resulting from the High Atlas) which forms the wadi Draa with the downstream of their confluence, it is the nerve center of a vast area of the Moroccan South. Ouarzazate evokes at the same time the southern buttresses of the High Atlas and the proximity of the Désert.

Its innumerable Kasbah S out of cob, of the mountains and arid plains, the valleys and oases green, the palm plantations and the red or ocher ground villages makes the charm of this area and give him its tourist attraction.

The symbol of the city is the Taourirt kasbah which belonged to the Pasha El Glaoui, it would have been built about the middle of the 18th century. It is represented in the new tickets of 50 Dirhams.

Founded in 1928 by the French colonial power, it was a garrison town a long time. On the military level it was used as a basis of aviation against the famous tribe of the Has Atta S which fought savagely against the troops of Henri de Bournazel, ( the man with the red coat , killed in Morocco in 1933), until 1934 when the chief rebels Assou Oubasslam returned to the French to avoid the massacre of the populations cut off in the mountains.

Today the town of Ouarzazate is in full rise on the plans tourist and cinematographic. It is in particular one of the Moroccan sites most snuffed by the realizers of cinema. Y were thus turned, partially or entirely: Lawrence of Arabia , Kundun , Gladiator , Alexandre Large the , Astérix and Cléopâtre , the Mummy , Kingdom off heaven , Babel etc

Ouarzazate has an international airport and is accessible by the road since Marrakech (4 hours in the bus, 3:30 in the taxi.)

Climate

Twinning

Maubeuge (France)
Hollywood (the United States)

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