Rue Es-Siaghine (

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: زنقة الصياغين, meaning Silversmith's Street, also transliterated as Rue Siaghin or Rue Siaghine) is a street in

Tangier Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the capi ...

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rule it was the ''decumanus maximus'', the main thoroughfare of the city. The street led to the harbor through the south gate. Today the street is lined with cafes and bars and souvenir shops, and leads down into the Petit Socco in the medina of Tangier.

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*At No. 44 is the Fondation Lorin, an arts centre which is also located along the street with displays dating back to the 1930s. *At No. 47 is Dar Niaba, a former administrative building noted for its courtyard growing oranges. From 1851 to 1920 the building served as the residence of the naib, the Moroccan high official who served as an intermediary between the sultan and foreign ambassadors.There is a long discussion of the building and the area, going back to Portuguese times (the entrance is apparently Portuguese), in Martin Malcolm Elbl, ''Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton'' (Baywolf Press: Toronto and Peterborough, 2013) . There is also a great deal on information about the other streets around this spot. http://www.trentu.ca/admin/publications/psr/monvol001.html and *At No. 51 is the Church of the Immaculate Conception, which was built by the Spanish in the 1880s and became the centre of the Christian community in Tangier.

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Tangier Tourist attractions in Tangier {{Morocco-stub

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