Why fly to Essaouira?
Cheap flights to Essaouira This 18th century walled city on the Atlantic coast comes complete with canons, ramparts and citadels – certain to conjure up exciting, romantic images of piracy or nomadic trading. In the days when it thrived as Morocco’s principal port, its labyrinthine medina would have been a haven for wheelers and dealers of spices and exotic goods, and in the 20th century these twisting passageways attracted westerners in search of the exotic, from Hollywood - as the backdrop for Orson Welles adaptation of Othello in 1949 - to 60s hippies, from Dylan to Hendrix. Today, it's considered a classic example of a late 18th-century fortified town, transferred to North Africa by European colonists, and listed by UNESCO.
