Friday, 22nd November 2019 Today we travel from Rabat to Tanger and move from predominantly French influences to a previously held Spanish territory. As we left Rabat we said farewell to the performance hall/opera house which was being built on the river bank opposite our hotel. An amazing construction [see feature photo at the top of the blog], this manages to combine elements of Concorde with the organic majesty of a whale. It is streamlined and beautiful. We have been impressed throughout out trip to Morocco with the huge infrastructure developments that are underway. There is building work everywhere and the completed buildings are impressive and modern with a Moroccan style. The most notable developments that we have noticed have been the railway stations: Marrakech, Casa Voyageurs and Rabat. At all of them ONCF, the Moroccan railway company, has left the original French railway building and attached to it a modern, functional and spacious railway station. As in much of the rest of Rabat, there are building works going on at the station at Rabat Ville. It looks as though the tramline will eventually come undercover into the station and the exterior is already taking shape. In 2018, after 10 […]
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