Visit Agadir, Morocco

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Agadir is a major city destination in Morocco surrounded by the High Atlas Mountains, the Sahara Desert, many natural parks, and breathtaking secluded beaches which are all easily accessible from Agadir. The city of Agadir is primarily a tourist resort that is popular with European travelers and Moroccans alike. It has a beach with all the appropriate facilities for beach-tourism. The city is especially attractive, it is clean and orderly with very friendly locals.

About

Agadir is a major city in Morocco. It is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean and 509 kilometres (316 mi) south of Casablanca. Agadir is the capital of the Agadir Ida-U-Tanan Prefecture and of the Souss-Massa economic region. The majority of its inhabitants speak Tashlehit language, one of the two official languages of Morocco.

Very little remains of the Phoenician language, but numismatic inscriptions record that they knew the site as a Gadir or Agadir, meaning "The Wall", "The Compound", or (by metonymy) "The Stronghold".

History of Agadir

Founded around 1104 BC as Gadir or Agadir by Phoenicians from Tyre Little history is recorded on Agadir before the 12th century. The oldest cartographic mention of Agadir is on a map from 1325: at the approximate location of the modern city there was an indication of a place called Porto Mesegina, after the name of a Berber tribe already mentioned in the 12th century, the Mesguina, that is to say the Ksima.

At the end of the medieval period, Agadir was a town of some notoriety. The name itself, Agadir al-harba, was attested to for the first time in 1510. In 1505, the Portuguese, who were already installed on the Moroccan coast, founded a trading post and a fort at the foot of the hill to the sea, Santa Cruz do Cabo de Aguer on the site of the now-vanished neighborhood of Founti (named after the Portuguese word fonte meaning fountain) under a governor.

Climate

Agadir features a hot semiarid climate with warm summers and mild winters. Located along the Atlantic Ocean, Agadir has a very temperate climate. The daytime temperature generally stays in the 20s °C (70s °F) every day, with the winter highs typically reaching 20.4 °C or 68.7 °F in December and January. Occasionally however, the region experiences winds from the Sahara called Chergui, which may exceptionally and for two to five days raise the heat above 40 °C or 104 °F.

Getting In

Here how you can get in Agadir;

By plane; Agadir-Al Massira Airport (AGA IATA) (20 km southeast of the city). Agadir has an international airport with direct flights coming from major cities in Europe as well as many charter flights arriving from all over Europe
By bus; Between Essaouira and Agadir it is very easy to catch an intercity bus anywhere along the way. During the day there is one bus about every hour
By Car

Getting Around Agadir

On foot; The touristy part of the city is small enough to be able to walk it.
By bus; There is a public bus service which is quite reliable. Maps can be obtained from the Tourist Office which is along the Boulevard Mohammad V
By taxi
By motorbike rental
By Car

Tourism Attractions in Agadir

Agadir has plenty of tourist attractions to offer;

Museum Municipal du Patrimoine Amazigh, Avenue Hassan II. The museum which exhibits a small collection of Berber objects from 18th and 19th century the likes of old Berber music instruments, Berber jewelry, traditional clothing and old manuscripts
Memory of Agadir Museum; Mostly photographic exhibits which concentrate on the Agadir earthquake on 29 February 1960
Coco Polizzi's Medina. Coco Polizzi has been recreating a traditional Moroccan Medina on route N1 in Bensergao
Fortress. There's part of the original fortress which is at the top of the hill beside the city, over the huge painting
The view of the city and the bay from Agadir Oufella (Casbah)
Bert Flint Museum on Boulevard Mohammed V
Valley of the Birds, a pleasant bird park stretching along the Avenue of Administrations, between Boulevard Hassan II and 20 August
The garden of Ibn Zaidoun
Mohammed V Mosque, on the Boulevard President Kennedy
Souk el Had
The little train of Agadir: circuit around the city
Amazigh (Berber) Heritage Museum at the Ayt Souss Square
The garden of Olhão or "Garden of Portugal" and its memorial museum in Talborjt
The marina with its Moorish architecture and shops
Loubnane mosque
Wall of commemoration

Overview

Getting In&Around

Attractions

A beautiful view through a clean and peaceful city of Agadir, Morocco

Agadir is one of the major urban centres of Morocco, a popular tourist attraction city in morocco