Ifrane, a Moroccan city located near the cities of Fez, Meknes and Ifrane province has 30.074 inhabitants (2004 census). Ifrane is considered one of the oldest cities and the Moroccan mountain, which lies at an altitude of 1655 meters above sea level as it distinguishes the bitter cold and snow covering the slopes of the mountains in the fall and winter and mild air in the summer and spring, as attract visitors Bfalladtha water and green nature.
Climate and Wildlife:
This town is witnessing the descent of snow during the winter months and cooler climate during the summer. Ifrane is also the place where it recorded the lowest degree heat in Africa, -23 ° C, in 1935. Among the animals in the surrounding areas endangered Barbary Macaque. Among the types of trees that grow naturally in the Atlantic region, there are rice, oak and Sycamore London imported from abroad.
Date:
The first permanent hostel in the region date back to the sixteenth century, the village of Sidi Abdel-Salam, called the angle of Sidi Abdel-Salam, or just the corner is the name of Mr. Abdul Salam institutional SOS to society of this region in the valley Tzkoat actually just seven km. From the mouth of the river current town.
Formed at the beginning of cave dwellings carved into the limestone wall of the valley. Only in approximately the last fifty years, the population began to build houses above Alord.allekeov which is now located under these houses are still used Khoudair of animals and places for storage. By the mid-seventeenth century seemed Sidi Abdul Salam angle sophisticated enough to get feudalism or the granting of land from the Sultan Sharif Ali bin Rashid.
Feudalism spread from the source of the current Ifrane at the bottom of the valley and even Tzkoat trench eyebrow. The agricultural land private ownership of the pastures were at the disposal of Alqublah.oukd tribal groups of the population underwent in Ifrane area - Ezro to colonial rule after a period of resistance (1913-1917) .almquaomh continued high in the mountains (Timahdat, Mount Fsaz) until 1922.
Urbanism:
It kept the city on the architectural character established by French colonists in the 1930s and continued in the town to maintain this architectural style, which is inspired by winter mountain homes that are no global stations such as «St. Moritz» and others.
Tourism:
The destination for the resistance fighters fleeing from the grip of the French colonial power, later became one of the best places frequented by visitors to enjoy the atmosphere and moderate Latif became the park for many Moroccan families and tourists. Ifrane of the few tourist interfaces in Morocco, known densely along the year, as visited by foreign tourists in winter and autumn to practice skiing on the ice, to meet a group of «Jet Set» Moroccan and lovers of snow, with no special winter stations to practice skating on ice as «Micleven» known and home to tourist resorts and restaurants to host visitors.
The station offers all possibilities to rent or buy practicing sports-related requirements of the snow along the possibility of providing lessons for beginners in this kind of sports with worldwide sometimes very high. In the summer, the city interface that people frequented thanks to the moderate climate, which makes the population very warm areas as residents of the cities of Fez and Meknes offer to the rest of summer. Also known as a station Ifrane important destination for lovers of sport hunting and wild off-season, which opens in the fall and post-intensive know whether Moroccans, or foreigners.
The Ifrane of the most open cities in Morocco thanks to its presence on the front of the roads leading to Fez, Meknes on the one hand and to Erfoud and Marrakech (city of the south of Morocco), on the other hand, has been Azrou known flocked months tribes Amazigh (built mailed) of the most important commercial markets in the region, where The tribes subjected their products especially the most important traditional Berber carpet (known as Alhnbl), as well as products of wood engraving and iron. Azrou was famous for being witnessed the construction of the first school in Morocco to teach Amazigh dialect in 1960.

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