Casamar

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Casa del Mar
Casamar
Casa Mar Fortress in Tarfaya 2011.jpg
Casa Mar Fortress in 2011
Coordinates27°56′46″N 12°55′51″W / 27.94611°N 12.93083°W / 27.94611; -12.93083Coordinates: 27°56′46″N 12°55′51″W / 27.94611°N 12.93083°W / 27.94611; -12.93083
LocationCape Jubi, Tarfaya, Morocco
BuilderDonald Mackenzie

Casamar (also known as Port Victoria, and Mackenzie's factory[1]) is a coastal fort, built in 1882 in Cape Jubi under the name of "Port Victoria" and by the British North West Africa Company, who positioned there early in 1879 in the goal of trading with commercial caravans coming from Timbuktu and heading to Noun River.[1] But in 1895, the company gave up the building.

By the year 1916, the Spanish occupation came to the area, and the building would be known as casamar (Spanish: Casa del Mar).

In 2014, the Moroccan Ministry of Culture launched a five-year rehabilitation project, at a cost of 60 million dirhams.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Sahara Overland". Archived from the original on 2020-09-26.
  2. ^ Lotfi M’rini, secrétaire général du ministère, M. Mohammed; Alaoui, directeur du Patrimoine Culturel, M. Abdallah; Akerraz, directeur de l’INSAP, M. Omar; Skounti, professeur à l’INSAP et expert auprès de l’UNESCO, M. Ahmed. "Éléments pour une vision PATRIMOINE 2020" (PDF) (in French). Archived from the original on 2017-07-21. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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