| History & Patrimony |
| Shefshaouen, history of the city |
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Shefshaouen, history of the city - 1
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| The city was founded in 1415 by the saint Moulay Ali Ibn Rachid. His company was the symbol of a local resistance to the Portuguese and Spanish conquest... |
The massive arrival of Andalusian families during the Spanish period of Reconquista contributed to its demographic and architectural development.
In addition to its military role, Shefshaouen constituted through its history a religious and spiritual pole which played a regional mobilizing influence against the Iberian danger.
Shefshaouen counts a significant religious inheritance: 20 mosques and oratories, 11 zawiyas and 17 mausoleums; which was behind its appellation as El Medina El |
Saliha "the Holy City".
Shefshaouen remained a long time closed to Europeans, only Charles de Foucauld in 1883 succeeded in penetrating the city during its famous "recognition through Morocco"... but remained only one night there.
In 1920, the Spanish took Shefshaouen, and returned it back to the kingdom of Morocco in 1956. |
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