Hotel Continental (Tangier)

Coordinates: 35°47′15″N 5°48′34″W / 35.7876°N 5.8094°W / 35.7876; -5.8094
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35°47′15″N 5°48′34″W / 35.7876°N 5.8094°W / 35.7876; -5.8094

Hotel Continental, Tangier, Morocco

The Hotel Continental, built in 1870, is one of the oldest hotels in Tangier, Morocco.[1] The yellowing pages of the 19th-century guestbook refer to notable residents, Degas, Winston Churchill, and the Beat poets among them, and Bertolucci's Sheltering Sky was partly filmed here. It is located in the Medina area of the city and some of the rooms overlook the harbor.[2]

References

  1. ^ Morocco. Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Guides. 2006. p. 133.
  2. ^ Many Tangier landmarks and old images of these are explained in detail, in relation to the hotel's location, in Martin Malcolm Elbl, Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton (Baywolf Press: Toronto and Peterborough, 2013) ISBN 978-0-921437-50-5. Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton and Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton