Essaouira Mogador is a town at the Atlantic coast of Morocco
Essaouira

 
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Scala the Port The Jews and the "Mellah" Bab Doukkala The Danish Consulate Orson Welles Square The French consulat

 


Essaouira
Mogador

Old Maps and pictures

 

Mogador Bab Doukkala and the  Market  street

Bab Doukala and the Market street

 

 


Old maps of Essaouira Mogador

See the growth of the town from 18th century to 1986.
Compare with Essaouira today!


Mogador 1809

Mogador 1809

Mogador 1809

Map of Mogador -View of Mogador to the South-West

 

Map of old medina Mogador

Mogador old map

Old map of Souira


 

Mogador port Low tide

Mogador port
19th century
Low tide

Place de la Grande Mosque

 


Plan de Mogador 1760

 

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Plan de la Grande Ile of Theodore Cornut in 1767

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Look at this interactive map:

Map of Mogador Bay from 1767(Plano y perfil del Puerto de Mogodor. 1767)
( https://www.loc.gov/resource/g8232m.lh000609/ )

 


Mogador Old map

The 18th century Mogador.

The road from the south passing Diabet and the river Oued Ksob
meets the road from Marrakech in the east.
Outside the medina in the nort-east are some gardens
and the rest is dunes and the forest.

 

Mogador 1944

Mogador 1844

 


1868

Cholera map 1868

Spread of cholera in Morocco in 1868 by Auguste Beaumier Consul of France in Mogador July 1869

 

Mogador 1895

1895

Map of Essaouira 1917

1917

Old postcard of Essaouira

Mogador Street in the Kasbah

 

Essaouira Medina  mid 20th ct after Magana was buid

Map of Mogador

MOGDOR Avenue du Chayla

Mogador Place du Chayla

Place du Chayla 1930
Today Place Moulay Hassan

 

Aerial view of Essaouira 1930


 



Bab Marrakech

 

1940th

Military map of Mogador 1941

Military map of Mogador 1941

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Essaouira surrounded by the sea on three sides

Old photograph Overview Essaouira Medina
Outside the walls gardens and lakes in the north and east
and south of Bab Sbaa there is a military camp and
then dunes along the brach to the forest.

From the sky Mogador

Arriving to Mogador by the dunes

Old postcard
Arriving from the south crossing the dunes to reach the town

La nouvelle Kasbah with the clocktower and the Ben Youssef mosque inside old wall.

Aerial view over Mogador

 

Essaouira 1977

1977

 

Essaouira 1986

1986

Essaouira aerial view

Essaouira aerial view

 

Astronaut Photography of Essaouira and Cap Sim beaches

Astronaut Photography of Essaouira and Cap Sim beaches


 

 

Maps


Essaouira
Old Maps
 

External links

Mogador 1900
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Old pictures
Forum mogador 7

Théodore Cornut