Essaouira breaks all the counters in terms of visitors – Today Morocco

2023-08-29 15:54:41

The city of Essaouira “broke all the meters” during the summer of 2023, thus achieving a “historic record” and unprecedented in terms of the number of its visitors.

“The summer of 2023 will be a milestone in the history of Essaouira. The Cité des Alizés, which generally sees its population more than double in August, broke all the meters this year by achieving an unprecedented record with a density of visitors which saw the city triple the number of those who visited it. stayed this summer,” reads a press release from the municipality of Essaouira.

“Another notable characteristic of this unprecedented vintage, tourists from Europe and elsewhere represented more than a third of those who chose Essaouira for their holidays,” notes the same source.

And to explain that “generally in this summer period, it is national tourism and the MRE which constitute the main part of the tourist flows. This was the case this year, but these flows have significantly widened and been enriched by an exceptional number of tourists from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America”.

“The increase in direct flights to Essaouira has contributed significantly to this performance, but according to many tourists and reading comments on social networks and in hotels, in addition to the legendary mildness of its climate in these heat wave, the attractiveness of Essaouira can be explained by the heritage, cultural and artistic positioning that the city has chosen for more than three decades as universal heritage by Unesco and which today gives the best of its fruits”, emphasizes the press release.

Bayt Dakira, inaugurated by HM King Mohammed VI in 2020, and which tells in its own way the story of the Cité des Alizés and the relationship that Jews and Muslims have built there, thus welcomed several hundred visitors daily who sometimes exceeded one thousand, the document says.

On the Place Moulay El Hassan, which welcomed more than 20,000 music lovers per evening, and in Dar Souiri, the Essaouira-Mogador Association and the Commune of Essaouira also and throughout the summer offered the public, several times weekly music concerts from all Souiris repertoires, from Gnaouas to Andalusian music and from the ritual of the brotherhoods to that of all the music that the Cité des Alizés has the talent to welcome and embody, notes the press release.

“To this cultural offer which is regularly expanding and which is open to new generations of musicians and artists, we must add the number and quality of the exhibitions which, on the initiative of the provincial department of Culture, have allowed the city’s painters and sculptors to express themselves and bear witness to the liveliness and creativity of the visual arts scene in the Cité des Alizés”, concludes the same source.

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