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Chefchaouen, the Blue Pearl of Morocco, walking through the narrow streets of the medina is wanting to stay there with no date to leave. Chefchaouen presents turquoise colors in all the houses in its old medina, being called the blue city and for that considered by many like the most picturesque locality of Morocco. It is located in the north of the country, not far from Tetouan and in its proximity we find the Natural Park of Talassemtane.



It has a population of about 40 thousand inhabitants, mostly belonging to Berber tribes, now that they go away the times of the mabbering mellah.



Its popular name says a lot about the city: most of the buildings in its medina are painted blue, as are its doors and windows. Viewed from afar, the historic center of Chefchaouen is dominated by this color, which merges with the sky which by these stops usually is found almost always clean.



Apparently, it was the Sephardic Jews who brought with them the habit of painting the houses in blue. For them this color represents heaven and paradise, serving as an omnipresent sign of the need to follow a spiritual path in life. This trend can be observed elsewhere, as in Safed, in Israel, but it was in Chefchaouen that it achieved greater notoriety.

According to the testimony of the elders, for a long time this use of the blue was limited to the part of the city occupied by the Jewish community, the mellah, and there is memory of a completely white medina.



As for its real name, Chefchaouen, originates in the location of the city, between two mountainous peaks: "Chef" = Look and "Chaouen" = "Cornos".

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