TANGIER’S TIME
Located at the very northwestern tip of Africa, Tangier is a crossroads, a meeting point of two seas and two continents. Morocco’s oldest and most international city has long attracted great powers—the Romans, Arabs, Portuguese, and English all once ruled—but also travelers; its lengthy list of notable visitors range from Samuel Pepys, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton to the Rolling Stones and a generation of Beat poets. Paul Bowles loved it so much he settled here, and Yves Saint Laurent bought a cliff-side villa where he recharged between couture shows.
In recent decades, Marrakech has dominated Moroccan tourism. But that is changing. Last year, Tangier experienced a massive jump in visitors, with overnight stays up a staggering 60 percent for the first four months of 2017. Arrivals at the city’s Ibn
