🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 51: Chefchaouen Chefchaouen — sometimes spelled Chaouen or Xauen — is a small town in the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco, population approximately 42,000, situated at 564 metres altitude in a small valley below two mountain peaks that give the town its name (the […]
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 50: Rabat Rabat is the political capital of Morocco, the seat of the Moroccan monarchy since 1912, and the diplomatic centre of the country, hosting over ninety embassies and giving it one of the largest concentrations of diplomatic missions in Africa. It sits on
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 49: Casablanca Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco, the largest port on the North African Atlantic coast, and one of the largest cities in Africa. The commune has a population of approximately 3.7 million; the greater metropolitan area is close to 4.4 million.
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Route: Tangier → Rabat → Casablanca Total distance: approximately 340 km by road Driving time: 3.5–4 hours on the A1 motorway Alternative: Al Boraq high-speed train — Tangier to Casablanca in 2 hours 10 minutes Currency: Moroccan Dirham (MAD). 1 EUR ≈ 10–11 MAD Driving side: Right Best months: March–May, September–November The Crossing Everything changes
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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 16 Lanzarote. Tenerife. Gran Canaria. Three islands that hold Spanish passports but answer to volcanoes, trade winds, and the Sahara. Lanzarote doesn’t look like earth I flew south from the mainland expecting more Spain. Two hours later I landed on the surface of another planet.
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 48: Gran Canaria Gran Canaria is the third-largest of the seven Canary Islands — 1,560 square kilometres, roughly the size of the American state of Rhode Island — and sits approximately two hundred kilometres off the Moroccan coast, at the same latitude as the
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 47: Tenerife Tenerife is the largest of the seven Canary Islands — 2,034 square kilometres, roughly the size of the state of Luxembourg — and sits approximately three hundred kilometres off the southern Moroccan coast at the same latitude as the Sahara. It has
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 46: Lanzarote Lanzarote is one thousand kilometres south of Madrid, one hundred and twenty-five kilometres off the coast of southern Morocco, and geologically in Africa in every sense the geology cares about. Lanzarote-born artist who came home from New York in 1968 The island
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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 15 Madrid. Sevilla. Málaga. The capital that refuses to explain itself, the city that turned heat into art, and the port town that raised a genius and then let him leave. Madrid confused me. And Madrid didn’t care. Every other capital on this journey announced
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 45: Málaga For approximately three thousand years, Málaga has been a working Mediterranean port on the southern coast of Spain, roughly a hundred and thirty kilometres east of the Strait of Gibraltar and directly opposite — across two hundred kilometres of narrowing sea —
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