GENERAL INFORMATION

Morocco "Maghreb el-Aqsa", land of the extreme setting sun for the Arab-Muslim world, has preserved its Berber identity. Country both African by its Saharan facade, Mediterranean by its climate and its history with Andalusian Spain; it has existed as a state since the year 788 Apr. AD A welcoming country, a major stopover in the world, a kingdom of a thousand kingdoms. An incomparable country, attracted by great conquerors, which favored the mixing of its successive civilizations: Phoenicians, Romans, Berbers, Arabs, Andalusians, Africans ... With innumerable spiritual and material riches, as evidenced by the diversity of its folklore, its crafts, its costumes, its gastronomy

Morocco, both Berber and Arab, has managed to maintain an ethnic, cultural and linguistic balance. Seductive country where the sun, beaches, mountains, Sahara and oases, offer a diversity of extraordinary landscapes. King Hassan II used the metaphor "Tree whose roots plunge in Africa and which breathes through its leaves in Europe", to describe a country of exceptional harmony between tradition and Geographical location:

In the north of Africa, with an area of 710,850 km², Morocco is located in the far west of the Maghreb, only 14 km from Spain via the Strait of Gibraltar. Surrounded by the Mediterranean to the north and the Atlantic to the west, on a 3446 km seafront; to the north the Rif mountains, from the south to the east those of the Atlas, as well as a sea of sand to the south.