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Sunday 30 March 2014

Ifrane, Switzerland of Morocco

Switzerland of Morocco, mountain landscapes (Middle Atlas) this time barely 1 hour drive from Fes and its colorful and noisy Medina. Here, depending on the season, you can ski or hike to leave the lakes.
How sweet it is Ifrane and exquisite beauty, "sang Brahim Alami. His real name Ourti (garden Tamazight), Ifrane is the most popular Moroccan summering center. Ifrane province is located in the heart of the Middle Atlas with an area of ​​3573 km2. It is inhabited by two major Sanhaja tribes, and Blessed Blessed M'guild M'tir. Mountain resort, this city has become a mecca for winter sports. With its chalets roofs covered with red tiles, is located at 1650 m altitude.
Its natural resources have led officials in the region to create a National Park 53000 ha. It is in this region that has the largest cedar forest in the country. His real name Ourti (garden Tamazight), Ifrane is the Moroccan summering center fréquenté.Ses most lakes are essential for fishing trout and pike. It is also a pastoral region and has an experimental station for the study of animal behavior. "How sweet it is Ifrane and exquisite beauty," sang Brahim Alami. 

His real name Ourti (garden Tamazight), Ifrane is the most popular Moroccan summering center. The first traces of human settlement in the region date back to the Neolithic. Caves such as those Tizguite and archaeological remains dating back to prehistoric times to Zerouka, Ghabt Al Bahr and Itto testify.
It is a tribute to the distant past in 1928 by Vizierial stopped, the protectorate authorities decided to create a summering center called Ifrane (caves Tamazight). Two projects of creating a summering station were proposed to Eirik Labonne, general secretary of the protectorate. The first was that of the current city of Ifrane and opted for the second city of Moha or Ksiba Said. 

Ifrane province is located in the heart of the Middle Atlas and extends over an area of ​​3573 km2. It is inhabited by two major Sanhaja tribes, and Blessed Blessed M'guild M'tir which flows northward "was arrested in the fifteenth century by the belt Casbahs founded by Sultan Moulay Ismail, which was to effect of promoting the creation of core settlement of nomads and allowed the formation of agglomerations as Azrou and Ain Leuh. 
Mountain resort , after Ifrane became a mecca for winter sports. With many chalets with red-tiled roofs built by the French , this city is located 1650 m above sea level. Each villa carries with it features: roofs, red tiles, some argue that certain assumptions, including those relating to their slopes . Indeed , these vary from the obtuse angle to the acute angle through the right angle. These inclinations and recall the evolution of the architecture of buildings in France from South to North , ie the Côte d' Azur in the English Channel.

The visitor can even notice the existence of fronts typically Normandy or Brittany or Alsace . By a sense of nostalgia, and each wanted to transpose the French fashion house of his country of origin and store at the same time passing . A French who lived in Ifrane 1936-1992 confided " about the evolution of the urban fabric of the city, in fact the makers of the time wanted to make this a city where French will not feel at any time disoriented . "
Ifrane province has huge tourism potential: varieties and diversities of paysageslacs and streams and a mild climate. Its natural resources make it a tourist destination of choice for hiking, hunting wild boar, partridge and the hare. Lakes are essential for fishing trout and pike. It is also a pastoral region and has an experimental station for the study of animal behavior. 

This potential has led officials in the region to create a national park extending over an area of ​​53,000 ha and an excellent representative sample of the Middle Atlas mountains. This is where we find the largest cedar forest in Morocco. Finally, this region has the largest core camps and camps of the Kingdom.


IFRANE WAS CLASSIFIED THE SECOND CLEANEST CITY IN THE WORLD IN 2013
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