00:00Chefschaouen is a city in the RIF mountains of northwest Morocco.
00:05It's known for the striking, blue-washed buildings of its old town.
00:09Leather and weaving workshops line its steep cobbled lanes.
00:13In the shady main square of Place Outer El Hammam is the red-walled Casper,
00:17a 15th-century fortress and dungeon, and Chefschaouen Ethnographic Museum.
00:22The striking, blue-washed buildings of Chefschaouen are every traveler's dream.
00:26The city is painted in beguiling talc or chalk-based paint,
00:31which has given it the name, Blue City, or Morocco's Blue Pearl.
00:35It is famous for its Moorish architecture, leather and weaving workshops.
00:39The octagonal minaret of the Great Mosque and the Chefschaouen Ethnographic Museum draws large crowds too.
00:46Chefschaouen's walls are daubed in all shades of blue to represent the color of the sparkling Mediterranean Sea,
00:52according to some locals.
00:53Others, on the other hand, believe that the blues symbolize the importance.
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