Petit Socco

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Petit Socco, also known as the "Souq Dakhli" or Zoco Chico in Spanish, is a square and its surrounding streets in the medina quarter of Tangier, Morocco. The words are a combination of the French word petit, meaning 'little/small', and the Spanish word zoco (often spelled as socco in northern Morocco), meaning souq, bazaar (Persian) or marketplace.[1][2][3]

The square was once known for drugs and prostitution.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Humphrys, Darren (2008). Frommer's Morocco. John Wiley & Sons. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-470-18403-5.
  2. ^ The history of the Socco under the Portuguese and the English in the 16th and 17th century is written up in Martin Malcolm Elbl, Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton (Baywolf Press: Toronto and Peterborough, 2013) ISBN 978-0-921437-50-5. http://www.trentu.ca/admin/publications/psr/monvol001.html and https://books.google.com/books?id=AeTBAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0
  3. ^ Morocco. Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Guides. 2006. p. 133.
  4. ^ "Tangier Old & New". www.moroccoholidayarchitects.net. Morocco Holiday Architects. Retrieved 30 January 2019.

Coordinates: 35°47′07″N 5°48′38″W / 35.7854°N 5.8106°W / 35.7854; -5.8106

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