What to see in Tangier in 3 days

According to the writer Fernando Castillo, “Tangiers is neither Moroccan, nor Spanish, nor Jewish, nor English… It is simply Tangiers”. And he’s right. Tangiers is something else. To help you, we have prepared an itinerary covering the places that you absolutely must see in this diverse city that, at the height of its glory between 1923 and 1960, enjoyed the status of an international city.

Tangiers has as many facets as it has visitors. As well as being one of the great gateways to the Mediterranean, it is a happy, lively, frontier city. It is at once artistic and bohemian, cosmopolitan and sleazy, diverse and contradictory… It is for good reason that it has proved a mecca for great characters, some of them famous and some unknown — including the Rolling Stones, Paul Bowles, Jean Genet, Jack Kerouac, Juan Goytisolo, Carmen Laforet, William Burroughs, and Bernard-Henry Lèvy. All were seduced by the light and magic of a city located only 13 kilometres from the coast of Spain, and whose labyrinthine narrow streets, coastline, monuments and people are a source of fascinating secrets.

If you’re planning to spend a weekend exploring Tangiers, it’s worth stepping up the pace to extract the maximum enjoyment from your sightseeing tour. Of course, the city’s enviable climate means that any time of the year is ideal for a visit to this city of over a million inhabitants, whose streets evoke stories of sultans, and which is, according to Paul Morand, “the most European city of Africa and the most African city of Europe”. A host of surprises and special experiences awaits you.