Enjoy your tour from Tangier to Asilah, one of the most beautiful and well-preserved old cities in Morocco. The fortified town’s ramparts and gate works are still fully intact hundreds of years after they were first built.

Pick up from your hotel and drive through Achakkar mountains through the district of palaces an villas. Admire nice views of the Kasbah, the medina and old harbour. Arrive to Cap Spartel for a panoramic stop, known in ancient times as the Cape of the Vines. It is presently dominated by a lighthouse, built in 1864 by Sultan Muhammad 3. Its maintenance was drifted by Britain, France, Italy and Spain until Moroccan independence in 1956. The area around Cap Spartel is popular for bird watching, especially with migrations to and from Europe; mainly from late March to early April and then in October. Among those you should have good chances of spotting are black kites, booted eagles and white storks.

Leave Cap spartel to the south of tangier and see amazing nicknamed beach “Plage Robinson”. Arrive to Asila and visit the ramparts, built by the Portuguese in the late 15th century, from the top of which you can see the Atlantic Ocean. El-Kamra tower, another Portuguese structure that is the tallest building in the town as it was once part of the ancient defence structure. Raisouli Place, the home of a prominent Riffian bandit dating from the 19th century. Refreshments stop roof terrace Café overview the ocean and old Asilah. Continue your walking guided discovery tour of Asilah full of history dates back to 1500 BC, when a Phoenician port called Zilis and was established on the site as a base for trade.
The Portuguese conquered the city in 1471, and was lost to the Spanish in 1578. In 1692, the town was taken by Moulay Ismail who gave it its present Arabic name.

Asilah served as a base for pirates in the 19th century, and became part of Sapanish Morocco since 1912.