Borj Nord

A 16th-century Portuguese-influenced fortress on the hill north of the medina, built by Ahmad al-Mansur to prevent exactly the kind of attack the Saadians had just survived. Now an arms museum. The cannon outside it — the longest in the world — was cast from the bronze of the bells seized from Sebastião's Portuguese army at the Battle of the Three Kings.

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The intelligence layer. History, culture, craft — the context that changes what you see when you arrive.