Tips for Hoceima: Your complete tourist guide N ° 1

Hoceima City

This superb city clinging to a cliff in the heart of a natural land and sea environment is one of the largest North African seaside resorts.

🚌How to get there?

🌞When to go?

Like everywhere in the Moroccan Mediterranean coast, the best time to visit is from April until October.

🤸‍♀️What to do? Activities in Hoceima

-Aquatic: Sailing, jet skiing and I tested scuba diving in Cala Bonita beach. The price was 300dhs 💰 (duration 15min + photos and videos underwater feeding the fish)
De more in the port, we offer boat trips to discover the caves in Hoceima.
-Hikes: in the magnificent Al Hoceima national park
-Monuments: Moroviejo and Mohamed 6 mosques, Royal Palace
-The Mohamed 6 square and the port are two lively places in the city.
-Souk Mirador: city market where you will find all the local products
-Corniches: Sabadia and Sfihat

Accommodation in Hoceima

🏨 Hotel : Mercure Quemado Resort

I present to you the hotel which will make you dream with its panoramic views over the Gulf of Al Hoceïma.
The Mercure Quemado Resort Al Hoceima, 4-star hotel on the edge of the enchanting Quemado beach.
All rooms have a terrace with ocean view.

💰 The price of the room is from 700dhs. The apartments are more expensive. Prices vary according to season and availability. You will find everything on the internet.

🍴Restaurant:
-Breakfast was included that I consider average for a 4 star hotel.
-There is a fast food restaurant just downstairs @ mollysdinerkenitra . Their burgers 🍔 are super good. A bit pricey but worth the cost. I highly recommend it.
The burgers🍔 were 💰 65dhs off the menu. Tacos🌮 60dhs 💰 the menu. Salads 🥗 45dh 💰.
-Otherwise the port is right next door. Many restaurants on site to taste succulent freshly caught fish at affordable prices.

🤸‍♂️Activities:
In addition to being able to enjoy the pretty beach 🏖 of Quemado and to practice water sports, you can go hiking in the Al Hoceïma national park, located 20 minutes by car.
Also you can take a boat ride 🚤 from the port.

👎No private space for beach residents. The hotel does not have lounge chairs or umbrellas on the beach.

🏢Airbnb :

• I loved our Airbnb which has a magnificent view of the port (see photo). The apartment is super big. Two bedrooms and a super large living room.
• Price around 500 dhs 💰 per night. If you are a party of 4 or more this is a good deal!
• Airbnb name: Al-marsa.

🍽Cafés and Restaurants in Hoceima

Miramar: best cafe with paronamic view on Quemado beach
Aiman Jet Park: Best cafe to watch the sunset 🌅
Restaurants: the port (lmerssa) for fish, Magic chicken, Regal and Mollys.

🏖️Sfiha beach and Penon de Al Hoceima or Nekor island

🏖️SFIHA BEACH: A long and beautiful gray sand beach, Sfiha Beach stretches over 1.5km. Located 8km east of the town of Al Hoceima. It has a beautiful ledge facing the sea and the tourist complexes. It enjoys a panoramic view of the rock overlooking the bay, El Peñón de Alhucemas; an islet belonging to Spain located 84 km from the nearest Spanish territory. Located in the bay, 700 m from the Moroccan coast.

📝 History: The Peñón de Alhucemas, was handed over by the Saadi dynasty in 1560 to the Spanish crown, in exchange for protection against Ottoman invasions. It was definitely occupied in 1673. At the end of the 19th century, at the beginning of the 20th century, it became a prison for ordinary prisoners, politicians and exiles, playing an important role in the Rif war. is occupied by the Spanish army and requires a special permit to visit it.

📣Many café-restaurants spread over the beach rent their umbrellas and hammocks to visitors

🤸‍♀️Activities: At Sfiha beach, in the forest that housed the old Club Med, you can visit what appear to be the remains of the forgotten town of Nekor, more than fourteen centuries old. Ruins belonging to the medieval city of al Mazamma which was the port of the kingdom of Nekkor founded in the 9th century

Hoceima National Park

Presentation of Hoceima National Park

Let me tell you about the best preserved natural park in the Mediterranean, of exceptional aesthetic quality! It preserves the last vestiges of the original biological diversity of the Mediterranean.

🔍Covering an area of 48,000 ha, the Al Hoceima National Park was created in October 2004 and includes a land part: the Bokkoyas Massif" and a part located at sea 🌊.

📍Location: The Park is located south of the Alboran Sea Ho near the town of Hoceima in the heart of the central Rif ⛰ which is none other than the extension of the Baetic Cordillera in southern Spain.

📏Distribution of the park:
- Cala-Iris which is the western limit of the national park
- Bades in Bekassem including Torres (I will talk about it in detail in the next post)
- Adouz in Tikkit,
- From Tikkit to Boussekour including Taoussarte (first photo 📸)
- Boussekour to Lalla Mimouna (Kimmat).

⚠️Attention: Declared as a protected natural area: hunting, the use of fire or camping, the collection, destruction or alteration of natural elements, the introduction of exotic species and the dumping of solid or liquid waste are forbidden to visitors.

🚌How to get there?

🌞When to go?

🏰Torres de Alcala

Torres d'Alcala or Torres des Sanhaja, the two well-known names of this Moroccan fortress located in the heart of Al Hoceima Natural Park, reflect a long-debated historical ambiguity. Recent excavations and major rehabilitation work, however, have put an end to the controversies over the origin of this building and have helped to trace the thread of a turbulent history.

📍Location: Castle made up of five towers overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, it is located in the Bani Bourah tribe, in the "Sanhaja Al-Sahel" area, west of Al Hoceima, 50 km away.

🔍This site was the first semi-urban center after the demolition of the towns of Badis and Al-Muzma and played after the capture of the island of Bades, the most important point in the region for trade and communication with the north-west (the port of Ceuta in particular).

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Population:
A Spanish document published in Annales du Rif, the 2nd and last issue, indicates that the statistics for the year 1942 limited its population as follows:
The total population is 242 inhabitants, Jews 200, Spaniards 40 people and 2 Muslims.

📝 History: This fortress was built at the beginning by the Almohads after the increase of Iberian ambitions in the region, especially after the defeat at the battle of punishment in Andalusia
And after its demolition it was rebuilt by the Portuguese 🇵🇹 in 1499 AD at a height of 91 meters above sea level, making it a strategic observation point by land and air.
After the deterioration of the Portuguese presence, the Spaniards entered it in AD 1563, and it is one of the most attractive castles and monuments that attracts large numbers of tourists and scholars in the history of the region.

🏖️Bades

Lost in the heart of the Al-Hoceïma natural park about 50 km west of the town of Al Hoceima, at the end of a dusty track crisscrossing the mountain, the village of Badès looks like the end of the world.

🏖 Bades beach is surrounded by cliffs and offers a magnificent panorama over the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.

📍 Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera. Like a stranded liner, the "Spanish" peninsula, from its 87 meters high, dominates the entire bay.

🤸‍♀️: in the region, the limestone massif of Bokkoyas has many bays and natural coves all along the coast. Some are only accessible by cruise ships

📝 History: It is one of the smallest land borders in the world: the border between the two countries hangs by a thread, the blue plastic rope stretches on the beach in the middle of wooden boats.
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera is possession of Spain since 1564, having already been occupied between 1508 and 1522, but is claimed by the kingdom of Morocco which does not recognize Spanish sovereignty. The soldiers of the small Barracks of the Cuerpo de Regulares of the Spanish Army are the only inhabitants of the island.

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