Essaouira : Blue City

Its history dates back to BC. The Phoenicians made it a dhow archway on the island of Mogador when they were traveling by sea to Ecuador. Yuba II, a Mauritanian king of Tangier, where he produced a factory for the manufacture of pigments extracted from oysters (French: la pourpre) - one of the molluscs - and was issued to the Romans. Then settled by the Portuguese and sultans Tombs. The Sultan Al-'Ali, Sidi Mohamed III Bin Abdullah, entrusted the task of reconstructing it in its current version to Theodore Komod in 1760.