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It's the coastal wind – the fantastically named alizee, or taros in Berber – that has allowed Essaouira (essa-weera, or es-sweera in Arabic) to retain its conventional tradition and character. For many of the 12 months, the wind blows so exhausting right here that enjoyable on the seaside is unimaginable, which means that the city is bypassed by the hordes of seaside vacationers who descend on different Atlantic Coast locations in summer season. Referred to as the ‘Wind Metropolis of Africa’, it attracts a great deal of windsurfers between April and November, nevertheless nearly all of vacationers come correct proper right here in spring and autumn to wander by the use of the spice-scented lanes and palm-lined avenues of the fortified medina, browse the various artwork galleries and boutiques, calm down in a number of the nation's greatest lodges and watch fishing nets being mended and conventional boats being constructed within the vastly atmospheric port.