Morocco - Map with Views

Maroc (Morocco)

This postcard is postmarked in 2014 from Morocco.

The map features images of Tour Hassan Rabat, Mosquee Hassan II Casablanca, Fes, Volubilis, Koutoubia Marrekech and Quarzazate.

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Morocco is one of only three countries (with Spain and France) to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines.

Morocco - Tangier, Souvenir de Tanger, Multiview

Souvenir de Tanger
(Souvenir of Tangier)
1956

the sender writes:

This is really a place to see and you can't appreciate it unless you do see it.  I'm on a short trip to Gibraltar and North Africa and now I'm on my way back to Bordeaux.

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Tangier is a city in northern Morocco with a population of about 700,000 (2012 estimates). It lies on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.

The city is currently undergoing rapid development and modernization. Projects include new 5-star hotels along the bay, a modern business district called Tangier City Center, a new airport terminal and a new football stadium. 

Morocco - Rabat, Place du Cardianal Lavigerie

95.601.78  RABAT
Place du Cardinal Lavigerie

Real Photo Postcard by La Cigogne
1954

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I can't make out what this is!  There was a Cardinal Lavigerie .....
Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie (31 October 1825–26 November 1892) -  a French cardinal, archbishop of Carthage and Algiers and primate of Africa.

But this is not the church that went by that name (now called the Cathedral of St. Peter).  So maybe this is a street named after Cardinal Lavigerie??

The main building on the postcard has a first word of Palais (Palace) but I can't make sense of the second word - Wogler?? 

Morocco - Tangier, Rue des Siaghins

Tanger (Maroc) - Rue des Siaghins
(Tangier (Morocco) - Siaghins Street - now called Rue as-Siaghin)
1939

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Tangier has been reputed as a safe house for international spying activities. Its position during the Cold War and other spying periods of the 19th and 20th centuries is legendary.

Tangier in the movies:

Inception featuring Leonardo DiCaprio – 2010: The city was used to film the scenes set in Mombasa, Kenya

The Living Daylights – a James Bond movie where he hunts Brad Whitaker down at his Tangier headquarters

From Russia with Love – the fictional character in "James Bond", Red Grant was recruited by "SPECTRE" in Tangier in 1962, whilst on the run from the law

Man from Tangier (a.k.a. Thunder Over Tangier) – 1957

My Favorite Spy - A Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr spy comedy set mainly in Tangier. - 1951

Tangiers, 1908 was one of the unaired Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes
Flight to Tangier (Charles Marquis Warren) – 1953

The Bourne Ultimatum, an espionage movie featuring Matt Damon – Jason Bourne tracks a man through the city who has information on his (Bourne's) past. – 2007

Morocco - Camel and Rider, Typical Scene

Marruecos Tipico
Typical Morocco

Meharistas de M'Hamid
Meharistes of M'Hamid
1979

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Mehariste is a French word that roughly translates to camel cavalry.

M'Hamid is a small village in Zagora region of Morocco, one of the two places in Morocco where Sahara begins (another is Merzouga). M'Hamid gets fewer visitors than Merzouga and is arguably more "authentic."  It is "The end of the road" (the last point of The route national N°9), after it is only sands of Sahara, shepherds and caravan trails.