Architecture and town planning form the most emblematic expression of the remnants of Spain recognised in Morocco today, a testament to mutual permeation and shared history. For centuries there has been a two-way flow that has created cultural traces as an expression of the Andalusi-Maghrebi civilisation, jointly participating with the Morisco substratum, and the subsequent Spanish interventionist presence in northern Morocco. Joint and permanent action in the inseparable architectural and urban concept offers the Andalusi medina and urban expansion as two urban models that convey the legacy of Spanish architecture and town planning in the north of Morocco, with representative examples of Andalusi houses, the neo-Arab movement, the architecture of eclecticism, the first rationalism movement, the architecture of nationalism and the second rationalism movement. The acknowledgement of its heritage was advocated after 1990 with the Regional Government of Andalusia’s International Cooperation Programme to promote restoration actions on built heritage, complemented with development and training activities in different Moroccan cities.
Spanish architecture, medina, urban expansion, Morocco.