Algeciras - Town Hall

(Local Name: Casa Consistorial) The only building of any note in Algeciras is the Casa Consistorial in Calle Regio Martínez, built in 1897, in which the international Conference of Algeciras was held in 1906. The conference met after the first Moroccan crisis of 1905-06 which was sparked off by the German Emperor Wilhelm II's provocative visit to Tangier. Germany was seeking to counter French policy in North Africa and win influence in Morocco, but at the Algeciras conference these aspirations were rejected and France and Spain were recognized as having control over Morocco.