Ourzazate, Kasbah Ait Benhaddou

 Ourzazate, Kasbah Ait Benhaddou, Taourirt

Since the nineteenth century to today, the city of Ouarzazate was a destination for filmmakers. it's transformed by the natural location to the center of the studio filming wich is the largest on the African continent. it's a destination of Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott, and others.

Not far from the city of Marrakesh, the Moroccan capital of tourism, there are «Ouarzazate» Moroccan cinema city .. «Hollywood Africa» as he called the Americans, or «gateway to the Sahara» as they are called French. Red city, attracted senior American and French directors also attracted other Europeans and Arabs, which now publishes «culture of cinema» in Morocco.

When roaming in Ouarzazate, a picturesque city that rises from the sea at about 1136 meters, and the hills are green and natural Uahadtha largest studio in the world, you'll find yourself in the other Hollywood. Nature and breathtaking palaces and towns and oases extended to hyperopia, churches and pyramids, snow, desert, here everything tempt senior directors.

  
In the city there are « Sekkoura oases» and «Palace Ait Haddou» and  «Tmghrt Kasbah» and  «Taourirt Kasbah» and the 'Draa' Valley. A variety of places where you find yourself living past wars with the Romans, the great civilizations such as Egypt, Romanian and Chinese civilisation, as there are «Egyptian pyramids» and «Jerusalem» . All of this is in Ouarzazate, incarnation trims maintained by the city in all its studios.

Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou is located on the top of a hill south of the Atlas mountain range, about 30 kilometers south of the city of Ouarzazate, buildings made of mud and surrounded by a defensive wall and is characterised by simplicity and durability surrounded by village of a few houses and small palaces and mosques and stables of the palace is outstanding model of traditional housing in southern Morocco.