Morocco, architectural heritage
Moroccan architecture presents an architectural diversity that has its roots in Hispano-Moorish art. It covers the forms taken by the Islamic art in the Iberian Peninsula between the eighth and fourteenth century, under the reign of the Umayyad caliphs of Syria, then under the rule of the Berber civilizations Almoravids and Almohads. Everyone agrees that Morocco is the crossroads of the Arab East and the Western Mediterranean, represented by Andalusia and that the different artistic forms of Arab-Muslim art find their full development in traditional architecture. Moroccan. Indeed, architecture allows artists and craftsmen to create magnificent masterpieces. If the models of the city tend to invade the architecture of the countryside, the rural world has an artistic expression of its own (blue houses of Chefchaouen). The architecture is refined and very ornamental, it first characterizes the art of Morocco. In the imperial cities, it is also a reflection of a history r
