El Jadida Portuguese Medina

The walled Portuguese city of Mazagan — founded in 1513 and held by Portugal until 1769, when Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah flooded it with gunpowder and forced the Portuguese to evacuate. The Moroccans who resettled it after independence kept the Portuguese street grid intact. The result is the only Portuguese colonial city on the African Atlantic coast that still functions as a living medina.