Marshan Palace, Tangier

The Marshan Palace is a palace of the King of Morocco in the Marshan neighborhood of Tangier, Morocco. It was initially built in the early 1950s as the seat of the Legislative Assembly of the Tangier International Zone.[1]

The building was repurposed as a property of the Monarchy following the independence of Morocco in 1956 and its proclamation as a kingdom on 14 August 1957. In the early years following independence, it was known as the Maison de Tanger ("House of Tangier").[2] From 27 to 30 April 1958, it was the venue of the Tangier Conference, a gathering of representatives from newly independent Morocco and Tunisia and from the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), which promoted a vision for a future united North Africa that unraveled in the subsequent years. Participants in the Tangier Conference included Ferhat Abbas, Abdelhafid Boussouf, and Abdelhamid Mehri from the FLN; Bahi Ladgham, Ahmed Tlili, and Abdelhamid Chaker from the Tunisian Neo Destour party; and Allal al-Fassi, Ahmed Balafrej, Abderrahim Bouabid, and Mehdi Ben Barka from the Moroccan Istiqlal Party.[3] The conference was chaired by Allal al-Fassi.[4]

In the 2010s, King Mohammed VI had the palace revamped to make it into a venue for diplomatic events.[5]

The palace grounds include the Mendoub Palace, a former mansion of the Mendoub (representative of the Sultan of Morocco in Tangier) that hosted the Forbes Museum of Tangier from 1970 to 1990.

See also

References
  1. Asis Viladevall Marfá; Alfonso Sierra (1953), "Tanger, Zona Internacional" (PDF), Revista Nacional de Arquitectura, Madrid, 138: 18
  2. Service de documentation extérieure et de contre-espionnage français (SDECE) (2 May 1958). "Compte rendu de la conférence de Tanger" (PDF). Aix-en-Provence: Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer.
  3. Samy Ghorbal (23 April 2007). "La conférence de Tanger, un rêve maghrébin". Jeune Afrique.
  4. Jeanne Le Bihan (February–March 2022). "Rêve fédéral à Tanger". Le Monde Diplomatique.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  5. Juan Ramón Roca (19 August 2018). "Tánger, regreso al futuro". El País.


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