TIZNIT

TIZNIT

Tiznit is a city in southern Morocco at 690 km from Rabat and 80 km south of Agadir, the capital of the Province of Tiznit, in the Souss-Massa-Draa. The city was restored in 1882 by Sultan Hassan Alaouite 1 which has given it a long wall encircling the old town still. El Méchouar The place is a center of the city with the palace of Sultan Hassan I and opposite the building which was installed under the french protectorate, the representative of the French army. The medina is divided into four areas focused on a source (the source blue). This source, which allowed the irrigation of gardens made the reputation of the city, but it has lost much of its flow as a result of excavation of the source of Reggada in the nearby village of Ouled JERRARI. Tiznit acquired an international reputation for its silverware, including the fibula is the flagship symbol.

Tiznit covers 8200 km ² area is bounded to the north by Chtouka Ait Baha in the south by the Province of Guelmim, on the east by the province of Taroudant and Tata and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, the territory of Tiznit is part of the domain of the Anti-Atlas which is the western part of the province of Tiznit covers several tourist landscape art and craft including: Mirleft, Aglou, Tafraout, Sidi Ifni. Tiznit is the starting point of the foundation of a dynasty, this was the case with the emergence of Almoravid from the madrasas in El Ouaggaguia Aglou; Foundation and a zaouia radiation, namely that of Sidi Ahmed or which Moussa Abdellah El Saadi Sultan Ghalib visited; Dissent, the most notorious was at its head the grand son of Sheikh Sidi Ahmed Ou Moussa who wanted to achieve in Amarah Semlalia Iligh abolished by the Sultan Moulay Rachid Alaouite. The history of Tiznit is also linked to the importance granted by the Sultans Alawites. Sultan Moulay Hassan first visited twice in Tiznit, one in 1882 and another in 1886. The walls of the town of Tiznit were his work.