Harbour Fortifications Stock Photography

Essaouira, Morocco: The Genoese built citadel at the harbour of Essaouira. Harbour fortifications were built by an English renegade named Ahmed El Alj, Ahmed the Renegade, in 1770. The citadel was built by Genoese engineers. Essaouira is a city in the western Moroccan economic region of Marrakesh-Tensift-Al Haouz, on the Atlantic coast. Since the 16th century, the city has also been known by its Portuguese name of Mogador or Mogadore. The Berber name means the wall, a reference to the fortress walls that originally enclosed the city.