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Morocco: Tangier

 

One-minute guides

Where history lives on
Phoenicians, Berbers, Portuguese and Spaniards all left their indelible mark on Tangier before it passed into Moroccan hands. [Mincom-Ilaycom]

Nice place, shame about the hustlers
Go to discos for the music, but not for company. [LexicOrient]


Around the city

Tangier 
(Wikipedia)

History of Tangier  
(arab.net)

Museum of Moroccan Arts

Museum of Antiquities

American Legation Museum

Forbes Museum

Photographs of Tangier

Tangier airport  
Information and details of scheduled flights


Accommodation

Biarritz $
102-104 Av. d’Espagne
Tel: 039-932473

Bristol $$
14 Rue ElAntaki
Tel: 039-942914

Chellah $$
47-49 Rue Allal Ben Abdallab
Tel: 039-943388

Continental $$
36 Rue Dar El Baroud
Tel: 039-931024

de Paris $
42 Bd. Pasteur
Tel: 039-931877

El Djenma $$
8 Rue El Antaki
Tel: 039-942244

El Minzah $$$
85 Rue El Houria
Tel: 039-935885

El Muniria $
1 Rue Magellan
Tel: 039-935337

Grand Socco $
Grand Socco
Tel: 039-931946

Ibn Batouta $
8 Rue Magellan
Tel: 039-947212

Lutetia $$
3 Rue du Prince Moulay Abdallah
Tel: 039-931866

Magellan $
16 Rue Magellan
Tel: 039-938726

Mamora $$
19 Rue des Postes
Tel: 039-934105

Marco Polo $$
corner of Av. d’Espagne/Rue El Antaki
Tel: 039-941124

Mauretania $
2 Rue des Chretiens
Tel: 039-934677

Miramar $$
168 Av. des FAR
Tel: 039-941715

Pension Atou $
45 Rue Salah Eddine ElAyoubi
Tel: 039-936333

Pension Fuentes $
9 Petit Socco
Tel: 039-934669

Pension Hollande $
139 Rue de Hollande
Tel: 039-937838

Pension Majestic $
33 Rue Ibn Zohr
Tel: 039-937246

Pension Mendes $
80 Av. d’Espagne
Tel: 039-933159

Pension Miami $
126 Rue Salab Eddine El Ayoubi
Tel: 039-932900

Pension Omar Khayam $
28 Rue El Antaki
Tel: 039-943393

Pension Palace $
2 Rue des Postes
Tel: 039-936128

Pension Talavera $
124 Rue Salab Eddine El Ayoubi
Tel: 039-931417

Rembrandt $$$
angle of Bd. Pasteur/Bd. Mohammed V
Tel: 039-937870

Rif $$$
152 Av. des FAR
Tel: 039-941731

Solazur $$$
Av. des FAR
Tel: 039-940164

Tanjah Flandria $$$
6 Bd. Mohammed V
Tel: 039-933279

Valencia $$
72 Av. d’Espagne
Tel: 039-930770

Youth Hostel $
8 Rue El Antaki
Tel: 039-946127

Your comments and recommendations on hotels are welcome. Please let us know of any hotels which you think should be added to (or removed from) the list.

     

In the Moroccan travel section

  

In the Morocco section

    

Tangier and the Beat Generation

Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs hung out in Tangier during the 1950s. Burroughs wrote much of "The Naked Lunch" there.

Visit the Paul Bowles page to find out more.


Books

Morocco Pocket Guide 
Jane Middleton, Delphine Verroest (ed). Paperback, 1995. ISBN 2831525659. Available from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk

Lonely Planet Morocco 
by Paula Hardy, Mara Vorhees and Heidi Edsall. Paperback, 2005. ISBN 1740596781. Available from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk

Morocco (Eyewitness Travel Guides) 
by DK Publishing. Turtleback, 2004. ISBN: 0756605091. Available from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk

The Rough Guide to Morocco 
by Mark Ellingham), Shaun McVeigh, Daniel Jacobs and Hamish Brown. ISBN 1858286018. Available from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk

 
 

 

 
 
 
 


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Last revised on 03 August, 2015