Essaouira Fischerdorf_fishing village Morocco

Essaouira a port city with about 85,000 inhabitants on the Moroccan Atlantic coast in the province of the same name in the Marrakech-Safi region. Before the independence of Morocco, the city was also called Mogador. This name probably goes back to the Portuguese and is today only used for the offshore island. The entire old town (medina) of Essaouira was recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2001