The City Portugaise

Inscribed on Unesco's World Heritage list in 2004, the City Portugaise was one of the early settlements worked by the Portuguese in West Africa. Dating from the mid sixteenth century and initially called Mazagan, it is a fine case of Renaissance military outline. Robust, ochre-hued bulwarks in a free star shape secure a reduced labyrinth of boulevards, the compositionally outstanding Church of the Assumption – now changed over into an inn – and an environmental reservoir.

The primary passage of the city is simply off Pl Mohammed ben Abdallah and leads into Rue Mohammed Ahchemi Bahbai. Instantly on the left is the previous church and relatively nearby is the Grand Mosque, with its remarkable pentagonal-formed minaret. Additionally down Rue Mohammed Ahchemi Bahbai is the Porte de la Mer, the first ocean entryway where ships dumped their payload and from where the Portuguese at long last left.

To one side of the door, through the opening, is a common pastry shop where neighborhood ladies as yet bring their bread to be prepared. To one side of the ocean entryway, an incline paves the way to the defenses and, in the southeast corner, the Bastion de L'Ange, an incredible vantage call attention to seek out to ocean and over the new town and port. Stroll along the bulwarks to one side to achieve the Bastion de St Sebastian, in the upper east corner, from where you can look down on the demolished synagogue.