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Tangier’s Layered Heritage Walk

Tangier’s Layered Heritage Walk

Tangier · Morocco

14 stops9.1 km1 h 50 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow Tangier’s story through its medina, beginning at the Tangier American Legation Institute and continuing past gates, museums, places of worship, gardens and historic squares. Notice how the route brings Moroccan, Mediterranean, Jewish, Christian and international traces into one compact walk. Pause at each stop to take in the changing streets, views and architectural details rather than hurrying between them. With some uneven ground, stairs and changing gradients, this is a rewarding moderate walk for seeing Tangier through its many cultural layers.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. American Legation, Tangier

    American Legation, Tangier

    A diplomatic gift that became America’s oldest overseas property and Tangier’s cultural archive.

  2. Bab Kasbah

    Bab Kasbah

    Bab Kasbah is a historic city gate in Tangier, Morocco.

  3. Kasbah Museum

    Kasbah Museum

    A palace turned museum, tracing Tangier’s past from prehistory to the twentieth century and across the Mediterranean.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Phoenician Gravesite

    Phoenician Gravesite

    Sépulture phénicienne, an archaeological site and tourist attraction in Tangier, Morocco.

  6. Grand Socco

    Grand Socco

    A Tangier square where a royal independence speech gave an old market its official name.

  7. Moshe Nahon Synagogue

    Moshe Nahon Synagogue

    Moshe Nahon Synagogue, a Jewish place of worship in Tangier, Morocco.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.