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MEDINA AND ITS RAMPARTS

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Medina, with cool narrow streets and Portuguese style houses, surrounded by remarkable ramparts in El Jadida.

Walking in the old medina is a delight. The cool narrow streets, its houses uniformly covered with an orange ochre plaster, the surrounding calm barely disturbed by a few merchants, everything contributes to recalling the flavour of the old days. This medina is surrounded by ramparts that form a square of about 300 meters on each side. They are advancing into the sea and were once surrounded by water thanks to the ditches dug by the Portuguese. They built the ramparts, which had five bastions. The most famous is that of the Angel who still keeps his cannons. Inside the enclosure there are houses with a Portuguese influence, decorated with pilasters and ironwork balconies. Next to the Church of the Assumption is a mosque whose minaret was built on the ruins of a five-sided watchtower. Note that it is possible to walk the patrol path that connects the different bastions with some effort and climbing, but it is worth it. This pier, which is accessed from the left of the ramparts, is a pleasant walk, offering a superb view of the city, especially when it lights up at dusk. Also worth seeing is the Porta do Mar which is at the end of the central artery, now a playground for the city's children. It is a vault dug into the wall, barred by two gratings and which looks directly out over the sea. This was the passage through which the Portuguese fled to Brazil in 1769.

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rommouss
Visited in january 2017
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construite par les Portugais cette citée possède de très beaux rempart où non seulement on a une superbe vue sur la mer mais aussi sur la ville
Matko
Visited in may 2016
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La cité d'El Jadida a été construite par les Portugais lorsqu'ils occupaient la ville. Les remparts sont bien préservés et il est possible de s'y promener librement. La cité a été classée au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO.
tinou85
Visited in january 2016
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faites le tour des remparts par l'extérieur, puis pénétrez à l'intérieur par une porte et tout de suite une ambiance très particulière se fera sentir de calme et de sénérité comme un lieu magique resté en dehors du temps, les gens semblent avoir toujurs vécus là et vivre en dehors du temps et des contraintes c'est sans doute du au fait que tout se fait à pied et qu'il n'y a pas de voiture, tout ne semble qu'attendre le passage des promeneurs dans un monde sans stress aucun. On n'a pas spécialement envie de ressortir et retrouver un monde effervescent.
historic town, old port has to visit! magnificent travel shifts up the dimension!

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