ifrane: suisse of morocco

Established the city of Ifrane modern by the French administration in 1929 on land confiscated from residents of the corner and was intended to be the city "station on the hill" and a cool place spend when families colony summer, was originally designed in accordance with the urban model for "Gardn City" (Garden City ) prevailing at the time. The plan called for the establishment of a summer-style chalets, houses Alps, surrounded by gardens and tree-lined streets curved. As the children of the royal palace of Sultan Mohammed V, the son of Joseph and was the first public buildings of the city is a post office and a church. Moreover, the building later became a prison camp for prisoners of war during World War II. As is the case anywhere else in Morocco, arose shortly after the city of huts called Tmedkan near the colony. It houses for Moroccans (maids and peasants, and so on) who were serving two resorts of the French. Tmedkan were separated by a deep valley for Gardn City belonging to the occupation. After independence has been slowly buying French property in the City Gardn original by Moroccans. The city has been expanded and equipped with a mosque and market places municipalities and public housing. Moreover, it has been rebuilt neighborhood Tmedkan and configured the appropriate civilian facilities. In 1979 Ifrane became the seat of the Provincial Administration of the same name, and established where some government services. In 1995, the brothers opened a public university, which has been teaching the English language, according to the American university curricula and helped to make this Ifrane again unwanted tourist area on a local scale. As a result, it is still continuing to evolve Ifrane resort for summer and winter. The chalets are now being demolished in the old city center and replace it with housing complexes, while spreading holiday centers and large houses on the outskirts of the city. Made up most of the Middle Atlas mountains in a series of limestone plateaus. And near Ifrane in the Middle Atlas cedar forests there. This falls on the plateaus of large amounts of rainfall by about 1000 mm per year in Ifrane and the nature of it wooded forests of oak and cedar alternately. Middle Atlas is located in the center of Morocco and is a natural water reservoirs, many of the rivers of the country, the task Dervishes and Cebu and mother Burkerk spring stems Menh.aly despite brokering, Valotals average was historically "Empty Quarter." Despite the fact that the region is going through traders regularly, and in spite of the summer pastures Alpine had intercourse with her sponsors, the harshness of the climate and the lack of soil fertility is relatively long as form an obstacle for Human Settlements Aldaúma.aleom still atlas average of less populated areas in Morocco, even compared with other of mountainous regions such as the Atlas and Top countryside. Modern city of Ifrane was established by the French administration in 1928, a small castle Owaied Tzkoat (now part of the palace) overlooking the Owaied Tzkoat was built during the period of military invasion in order to secure the road between Fez and Khénifra through the mountains. The scene slope gently, Benaabieh fresh wild flowers and gave the possibility to be a summer resort for families of occupation in Cayce easy and Meknes and Fez. Fifty hectares of agricultural land in the corner, in the area originally designated Ctoc or "garden", was confiscated for this project. Ifrane was a "hill station" or type of housing colonies.

The British were the first to have this kind of groups established resorts in India, the most famous Simla in the Himalayas, which served as the "summer capital" to them. French built similar hill stations in Indochina, Kdalat which was established in 1921, is not Ifrane is the only hill station which was established in Morocco, the French built another station in the neighboring Aimoszr, as well as in Oukaimedin in the Atlas top. Hill stations have some common features, because they are dedicated to the families of expatriate Europeans.

And they are often designed in a way designed to remind the population of expatriates distant homelands. The quote architectural style, which was adopted from the mother country of the region in order to look as "England Small" or "soft France." This is the case in Ifrane where used different methods to build a mountain like "House of the Basque Country," "Jura" and "Savoy". Moreover, it has been brought trees and flowering plants from the European country of origin. The intent is to also make the place more like the original homeland. In Ifrane been imported trees and purple trees Alsickamor (platanes), and chestnut trees (marronniers and châtaigniers) and the linden tree (linden tree) (tilleuls) are all imported for this  source : http://fr.wikipedia.org