Tetouan Attractions

A white Andalusian city set upon the Mediterranean Sea near Tangier, Tetouan traces its origins back to third century B.C. Then it was a settlement called Tamouda which existed until A.D. 42 when it was destroyed by Roman armies.

When the Merinid sultan Abu Thabit constructed a kasbah at Tetouan in 1307, the Muslim city began to find its form. However, as a refuge for Barbary pirates, Tetouan drew the wrath of the Castilian King Henry III whose forces overran the city and sacked it in 1399. For a century thereafter Tetouan went into a period of decline until coming under the Andalucian influence of refugees from Granada.