Agadir

On the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in southwestern Morocco is Agadir, one of the country’s major cities and a favourite holiday destination for foreigners and locals alike on Morocco vacations.

With its location on the coast, Agadir was a fishing village during medieval times. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese established a trading post; however, by the middle of the century, Agadir had come under the control of the Saadi Dynasty. The next two centuries were prosperous ones for the city until an earthquake left it devastated in 1731. The Agadir Crisis of 1911 gave France the opportunity they needed to occupy almost all of Morocco making it a protectorate in 1912. Struck by another earthquake in 1960, Agadir was remodeled into a thoroughly modern city.