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Article: MOROCCO; The exotic is expected and varied.(TRAVEL)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2006
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Byline: Richard Slusser, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
FEZ, Morocco - To Westerners, Morocco sounds exotic and remote. It is plenty rich in the exotic, but from New York to Casablanca, the distance by air - 3,600 miles - is 20 miles fewer than New York to Paris and just 160 miles farther than New York to London.
Casablanca is the hub of airline transportation in Morocco, and most flights between cities are routed through that famous city on the Atlantic Ocean. Rabat, the capital and also on the Atlantic, is a short distance from Casablanca.
Fez, though, is the spiritual and cultural city of Morocco, at times called the Holy City. The medina, or old ...