Ifrane, Switzerland, Morocco
At an altitude of 5460 above the Mediterranean Sea, the city of Ifrane is located in Morocco. It is a beautiful and wonderful tourist city like other tourist cities in Morocco. On a small reconstructed hill, while you are in this city, you will feel like you are in Switzerland in the Alps, characterized by its elegant houses with red roofs, colorful and varied flower gardens, landscaped gardens, lakes and trees covered with snow during winter. Switzerland earned the nickname Morocco for its blend of great natural beauty and European style.
Cedar forests add a beautiful splendor in the spring to the city of Ifrane, and in the winter it is covered with snow, and it is a destination for snow lovers. Ifrane is a tourist destination, both indoor and outdoor, to which tourists flock from everywhere.
During the years of occupation, Ifrane was built by the French in the thirties, the cold climate in it is in the summer, where the cities of Fez and Meknes live in hot weather, and the weather of Ifrane is moderate and refreshing, which is a reason for attracting the French to this city and still attracts Moroccans as well.
In winter, temperatures drop below zero in Ifrane and snow covers the foot of the surrounding mountains. For information, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Africa was in Ifrane and was below 24°C.
Because of its location on the top of a mountain, Ifrane was used by the French occupation as a tourist destination where colonial families spent the summer months. It was also intended for expatriate European families, and was often designed in European style to remind foreign residents of their distant homelands especially that trees and flowering plants were imported from their motherland.
The Moroccans moved to the city of Ifrane after independence from France, and they expanded it in 1995, where they built many facilities, they also built a market, a mosque, and facilities for recreation and rest, and the well-known and prestigious Al Akhawayn University was opened, and old buildings were demolished and residential complexes were built, some of which were booked by the Companies where their employees spend their holidays.
Many families, especially wealthy ones, flock to the City of Ifrane in the summer and in the winter, as it has become a local tourist destination, in order to spend their holidays and enjoy the picturesque landscapes and the wonderful atmosphere of Ifrane, nicknamed the Switzerland of Morocco, as well as those who love to practice snowboarding.
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