Portuguese Church of the Assumption

A 16th-century Portuguese Gothic church inside the walled city — the only surviving Portuguese church in Morocco. The nave is roofless but the walls and the apse are intact, the Gothic vaulting still visible above the open sky. Orson Welles filmed the opening mirror scene of Othello here in 1949 — drawn by the same quality of light and ruin that characterises the city.

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