For a beautiful escape between land and sea, the Casablanca region is full of unusual stops to recommend to travelers in love with nature and heritage, written on Friday “Le Figaro”.
In an article in its “Voyages” section, the French daily takes its readers in a getaway through secret escapes less than two hours from Casablanca, notably the Oualidia, El Jadida and Azemmour lagoon.
Describing the assets of Oualidia, the newspaper notes that it is one of these wonders of nature whose Morocco is fond of more than 40 km where a dunic cord runs along the ocean, protecting an ecosystem of lagoons, marshes and salt marshes.
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Oualidia is a popular place for safe swimming, where the apprentice surfers learn to rub the waves. In quiet father mode, we can also go up the lagoon in the middle of oyster parks, one of the curiosities of this funny universe between land and sea, where tomatoes grow on dunes and cows graze according to the tides, writes “Le Figaro”, noting that the most extraordinary remains the incredible collection of birds: more than a hundred species, including flamingos.
The daily also invites its readers to an immersion in the history of the Portuguese city of El Jadida, “a unknown treasure of the Moroccan heritage”.
Classified by UNESCO as an early example of the military architecture of the Renaissance (16th century), with its star shape, this fortified city is the memory of the Lusitanian presence on the Moroccan coasts, recalls the newspaper, specifying that even today, we can guess this presence by traveling the wide runway punctuated by four watches.
From up there, the view is striking on the fortifications of golden stone, the roofs and the port with its ballet of fishing boats. Below, Placettes and Ruelles reveal a mosaic of influences, of the two churches punctuated by bells with sculpted pediments of patrician residences: at its golden age in the 19th century, this pocket city (7.5 hectares) then had about fifteen consulates, describes the French newspaper.
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Arriving in Azemmour, Le Figaro notes that it is a splendid city where, on the other side of the Oum Er-Robia river, the old town deploys its postcard, mirging its high white houses perched in the waters. Inside, in the intertwining alleys, where the foreigner is invariably praised with a smiling hello, we spot the details of an old glory: studded doors, sculpted sandstone adorning a facade, fragile wooden balconies, and faded walls that frescoes revive their colors.
And the newspaper concludes that the city has been welcoming street art festivals for a decade, “a nice Ariane thread to travel the medina”.
