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Tétouan
City and municipality in Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco

Tétouan

Tétouan is a city in northern Morocco.

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It lies along the Martil Valley and is one of the two major ports of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles south of the Strait of Gibraltar, and about 60 kilometres (37 mi) E.S.E. of Tangier. As of 2024, the city has an estimated population of 469,465 inhabitants. It is part of the administrative division Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima.

Get in

Getting to Tétouan

  1. 01
    Sania Ramel Airport
  2. 02
    Gare

    The station has ticket offices, toilets, ATM and a large cafe with a terrace.

  3. 03
    CTM

    It has big waiting area, toilets, but no cafe.

See

Worth seeing

Unlike any other Moroccan Medina, Tétouan's

  1. 01
    Medina
  2. 02
    Bab El Okla

    Houses Ethnographic Museum (also known as Bab El Okla Museum).

  3. 03
    Bab Jiaf
  4. 04
    Bab Mkaber
  5. 05
    Bab Saida
  6. 06
    Museum

    It's on the premises of the former Mosque of Laouk.

Do

Things to do

Tétouan is surrounded by two mountains:

  1. 01
    Mount Dersa
  2. 02
    Mount Ghorghiz
Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Restinga Restaurant

    21 Av.

  2. 02
    Dallas

    Small teashop/patisserie with lots of sweets and baked goods on offer.

  3. 03
    Restaurant La Union
  4. 04
    Cafeteria Pizzeria Lisboa
How locals move

Getting around Tétouan the local way

  • Go nextTangier – Famous port city with ferry connections to Spain.

From Wikivoyage: Tétouan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.