Riad Antek - Chefchaoun

Chefchaouen, or horns of the Tamazight language mountain or the Blue city, as some like to call it, is a city that arrive late moriscos after being expelled from Andalusia, reason why opted for the second one led by Moulay Ali bin Rashid, like the Construction of houses attended the difficult beginning of the year 1471 AD Mountain terrain, rooted Spaniards and Portuguese attacks under the command of Jihad operations against those who are behind the mountains that are originally a military fort before being just a city.

If the rod between the first day of the year 1471 the city of Chefchaouen, reconstruction between 1471 and 1541 m in five phases has taken as indicated by historical sources. Among the main population centers built by the Arabs we remind you to Al-Andaluz, where the kindergarten is Riad Antek. This neighborhood was built on the basis of housing the second group of Andalusian immigrants who came to Chefchaouen year 897 AH / 1492 CE, is that it was similar to stalking the neighborhood in terms of design, Hall neighborhood with different Andalus it in terms of Topography of the subject, requiring occupants of the two-storey and three-storey building, with the presence of more than one entrance and engineering bookings by a spectacular Riad Antek.

The date of the construction of the Riad Antek in the late fifteenth century, as evidenced by its architecture and its foundations and materials used in construction. But what distinguishes the other buildings in the neighborhood of al-Andalus, the occupation is strategically located in the center of this district, in addition to the historical prestige of more than five centuries, as it was considered for long periods of this official history based In a number of notables manageable and the country, as it was like a home to eliminate, in the form of the Riad Antek, room where people meet the court before a judge or leader. This busy and the wards of the detainees, prisoners of the houses, and a place to maintain security and public order in the city, and given the importance of the place, it was built on the site guard archery and alley Follow-up with a view to one side.

It remains for Riad Antek overlapping as saturated ants houses fragrance of history, and its surface that looks towards all aspects of Chefchaouen, a charming sites that undoubtedly present Chefchaouen, its history and the inherent flat culture The visitor feels the magic story.