Escape to Morocco

Agadir is the ideal destination for winter sunshine seekers ! A beautiful beach with fine sand, sunshine 300 days a year, many hotels (20 000 beds, i.e. a quarter of the total Moroccan hotel capacity) : Agadir is undoubtedly the only real seaside resort in Morocco. 

The port of Agadir was created in 1503 by a Portuguese nobleman, and became an important port of call on the sea route to Africa, as well as a centre for caravans on the fringes of the Sahara. It thus became a human jungle where commercial and military antagonisms where fed by the presence of seamen, soldiers and merchants from all parts of Europe. 
Capital of the Souss, land of the marabouts and homeland of the Saadians, the fearsome dynasty of warriors, Agadir fell into decline from 1760, when the sultan Mohammed ben Abdullah chose to punish the unruly city by closing the harbour to European traffic and creating a rival port in Essaouira. Two centuries later, in 1960, a terrific earthquake brought the town back into people's memories. 

Agadir was rebuilt and is now a modern town of tourism, and an ideal starting point for southern excursions. 
The commercial and sea-borne activity is also flourishing (Agadir is the first fishing port in Morocco), which confirms the town's role as the capital of the region

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