The stylish CEO of social network A Small World (aka Facebook for the jet set) knows a thing or two about booking getaways. Sabine Heller gives us the keys to Essaouira, Morocco. “It gets boring ...

To travel to Essaouira is to travel back in time. On Morocco's Atlantic coast, this is far removed from Marrakech's rakish La Mamounia or Royal Mansour. Essaouira means "little picture" in Arabic and ...

The first stop on our street food tour in Essaouira, Morocco, was to try a calamari tagine. Cooked in the traditional ...

Essaouira is pronounced es-Sweera in Arabic. Say it long and slow and it sounds like the tangy sea breeze that whistles through the araucaria trees, narrow alleys, and historic seafront fortifications ...

Morocco and Japan signed a supplementary grant agreement on Tuesday in Rabat to complete financing for a next-generation ...

Its fairy-tale battlements the colour of honey, its miles of sandy beaches and a bustling blue-and-white medina straight out of a picture book have made this laid-back little port on Morocco's ...

This colourful port follows the old ways but attracts new visitors looking for inspiration. Beach getaways don’t usually feature stone ramparts – unless of course you happen to be a Barbary pirate in ...

The opening scene of Orson Welles’ acclaimed 1952 production of Shakespeare’s Othello pans the length of the Skala de la Ville, the 16th-century sea ramparts running along the Atlantic facing cliffs ...

Now luxury riads are so synonymous with Morocco—a sort of warm, familial hospitality that’s woven into the travel experience—that it can be difficult to imagine that there was a first. But there was a ...

Will the Moroccan port city of Essaouira emerge as the selective waste-sorting champion of Africa? That's the goal promoters of the Mogagreen programme hope to achieve over the next 10 years. At a ...

Afew weeks ago I found myself happily pootling around Morocco’s most infamous beach town doing nothing much of anything at all. This is where Jimi Hendrix was said to have penned Castles Made of Sand, ...