Ouarzazate

Atlas Mountains Berber Countryside Chefchaouen Erfoud Fez Gibraltar Straits Marrakech Music Ouarzazate Ouazane Rabat Rissani Tangier Volubilis 2007 Volubilis

Boumaine du Dades and Quarzazate

 

Boumaine du Dades market place

 

 

truck in Boumaine loaded with propane canisters
used for cooking

 

road from Boumaine to Quarzazate

 

Quarzazate

Ouarzazate (Arabic, ورزازات, Warzāzāt) (called The door of the desert), is a city in southern Morocco.

Its name comes from a Berber phrase meaning "without noise" or "without confusion". It is also featured by its closeness to Atlas Mountains and Draa Valley.

 

new construction in Berber style

 

 

 

 

watering the newly planted trees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sidewalk pattern

 

desert travel outfitter

 

join the caravan

 

or go motorized

Once in its history, Ouarzazate had been a small crossing point for African traders seeking to reach northern cities in Morocco and Europe. During the French period, Ouarzazate expanded considerably as a garrison town, administrative centre, and customs post. It is home to the casbah of Taourirt, (the casbah of the former caïd and later the possession of T'hami El Glaoui). The Krupps field gun which secured Glaoui power is outside.

 

children in their school

 

 

Kasbah walls

 

Photos of the Kasbah of Taourirt

 

poster for travel to Morocco



Atlas Film studios

 

 

At present, it hosts one of the largest movie studios in the world, Atlas Studios. Several historical movies were shot on those studios (e.g. Astérix et Cléopâtre, Lawrence of Arabia, The Man Who Would Be King, Cleopatra, Kundun, Gladiator and lately Alexander, Kingdom of Heaven and Babel). It was also the location of the November 26, 2006 episode of the television series The Amazing Race.

Text from Wikipedia

 

 

 

 


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