It extends on more than 6 kilometers. One can have a nap the  under the sun in the best conditions even if it is disadvised coating sun lotions because of the wind, which reigns as a Master. bewaie however with the bathe because even if it is supervised the months of multitude, the very strong movements are often dangerous. Only the surfers find there really their account, with imposing waves and a very appreciated wind. All along the beach,  small coffees and restaurants settled recently, proposing lunches and snacks on sunny terraces where it is good to setdown and drink a mint tea.

Located in the area of   Bab El Sebbagh (door in the east of Medina), the tanners work since decades the skins in enormous tanks. The nauseous odor which escapes from it is due to lime and a bath to soften the skins, made up of urine of animals and fiente of pigeons. Take mint bits or a  perfumed handkerchief.

The gnaouas are the descendants of black slaves of Morocco. Their geographical origin would be Sudan. It is a music of fright similar to the voodoo or the macumba. The Morrocans, in particular the young people, adore this style of music (near to the blues) throbbing, melancholic  and (envoûtant) and ruent themselves each year in June to the  gnaoua festival  of the city. The singers are adulated and certain are known universally and come in Essaouira sometimes from so far, as genuine stars. They use the guenbri, drums (ganga) and the crotales (qraqeb) formed of two half-spheres (out of iron) fixed on a bar and which one strikes one against the other in a particular rate/rhythm. The gnaoua is a music without borders.

Essaouira was built at the same time as its ramparts which were used very a long time as defense against the invaders. This enclosure is crenelated and opening of broad doors. Side sea, it remains still a bastion with its guns. The fortifications point out those of Vauban in France. They surround of the districts whose plans were drawn by Theodore Cornut. Along these ramparts, you will not be able to escape the visit from the sqala from the kasbah, with its guns of bronze to the weapons of Aragon and Castille and its 200 meters length platform; this old Portuguese battery is certainly the place more symbolic system and picturesque of Essaouira.

If you go to the port and that you look at the sea, you must notice two islands and  tiny small islands very close to the coast. This archipelago is called islands of Mogador or islands purpuraires. The largest island of 30 hectares, called "island of the Pharaon", shelters an unused prison built at the end of last century as well as a mosque with its minaret and some abandoned fortifications. The site is a reserve of birds (inter alia gulls and seagulls), and in particular a place of reception for the Eléonore falcons. The islands also have a role of protection of against of the powerful waves of the Atlantic.