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Place Taraa (طارا), Essaouira, Morocco
Place Taraa (طارا), in Essaouira (אסואירה ,الصويرة, ⵜⴰⵚⵚⵓⵔⵜ, Mogador), Morocco (מרוקו, المغرب).
Description
Rue Mellah, formerly Rue Moise, ends in Place Taraa, today a small square with many small restaurants and cafés. The former resident David Bouhadana remembers that it used to be the where "people from the nearby villages arrived in the evening around 5pm to sell the milk or Leben...There also used to be a synagogue, Slat Taraa or Slat Rabi Ayad at the corner where Place Taraa connects with Avenue Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah."
Sources
Information courtesy of World Monuments Fund, "Stories of the Mellah" Cultural Mapping project, https://www.wmf.org/untold-stories-jewish-quarter-essaouira
Photographs courtesy of World Monuments Fund, Stories of the Mellah Cultural Mapping project. All photography by Amine Bennour, Laura Brandt, and Yousef El Miadi.