Marshan Palace, Tangier

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The Marshan Palace is a palace of the King of Morocco in the Marshan neighborhood of Tangier, Morocco.

Legislative Assembly of the Tangier International Zone[]

The building was initially erected in the early 1950s as the seat of the Legislative Assembly of the Tangier International Zone.[1]

Maison de Tanger[]

Following the independence of Morocco in 1956 and its proclamation as a kingdom on 14 August 1957, the building was repurposed as a property of the Monarchy. In the early years following independence, it was known as the Maison de Tanger ("House of Tangier").[2]

From 27 to 30 April 1958, it was the venue of the Tangier Conference, a gathering of representatives from newly independent Morocco and Tunisia and from the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), which promoted a vision for a future united North Africa that unraveled in the subsequent years. Participants in the Tangier Conference included Ferhat Abbas, Abdelhafid Boussouf, and Abdelhamid Mehri from the FLN; Bahi Ladgham, Ahmed Tlili, and Abdelhamid Chaker from the Tunisian Neo Destour party; and Allal al-Fassi, Ahmed Balafrej, Abderrahim Bouabid, and Mehdi Ben Barka from the Moroccan Istiqlal Party.[3] The conference was chaired by Allal al-Fassi.[4]

Royal palace[]

In the 2010s, King Mohammed VI had the palace revamped to make it into a venue for diplomatic events.[5]

The palace grounds include the Mendoub Palace, a former mansion of the Mendoub (representative of the Sultan of Morocco in Tangier) that hosted the Forbes Museum of Tangier from 1970 to 1990.

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References[]

  1. ^ Asis Viladevall Marfá; Alfonso Sierra (1953), "Tanger, Zona Internacional" (PDF), Revista Nacional de Arquitectura, Madrid, 138: 18
  2. ^ Service de documentation extérieure et de contre-espionnage français (SDECE) (2 May 1958). "Compte rendu de la conférence de Tanger" (PDF). Aix-en-Provence: Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer.
  3. ^ Samy Ghorbal (23 April 2007). "La conférence de Tanger, un rêve maghrébin". Jeune Afrique.
  4. ^ Jeanne Le Bihan (February–March 2022). "Rêve fédéral à Tanger". Le Monde diplomatique.
  5. ^ Juan Ramón Roca (19 August 2018). "Tánger, regreso al futuro". El País.


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