Ifrane in Morocco located at an altitude of 5,460 feet above the Mediterranean sea level, the city does not look like any other city in Morocco. This city is built on top of a small hill, you can feel like in the Swiss Alps, because of the red-roofed houses with elegant, colorful flowers and gardens, landscaped gardens, lakes and snow-covered trees during the winter. This combination of outstanding natural beauty which is designed to grant the city the title of European-style "Switzerland of Morocco." In the spring season, the city of Ifrane forests festooned with rice, pastures recover life and in the winter there are a sharp contrast in climate due to the hot, dry climate that surrounds the area. Because of the accessibility, Ifrane is the kiss of wealthy Amazigh, Fez, Meknes and Marrakech, who flock here to experience the separation of a European winter. Ifrane built by the French in the thirties, during the years of occupation, and it was the French are attracted to this city and still attracts Moroccans wealthy it is a cold climate during the summer, while be the cities of Fez and Meknes pouring with sweat from the heat be weather Ifrane mild and refreshing. In winter, temperatures drop in Ifrane below zero and snow covers the foot of the surrounding mountains.
For your information, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Africa in Ifrane and was below 24 degrees Celsius. Due to its location up the mountain, it was the French occupation uses city "Ifrane as" hill station "where spend colonial families the summer months, has been developing the concept of" hill stations "for the first time by the British in India, the best known of which is an example of Shimla in the Himalayas, which was as the summer capital. as was the custom of the European expatriate families, and they are often European-style to remind the foreign population distant homelands, especially since trees and flowering plants imported from their home country.
After independence from France, Moroccans go to Ifrane and worked to expand they built a mosque and a market and other facilities for rest and recreation. In 1995, it was the opening of an American public university curriculum is "Akhawayn University" prestigious, as the old chalets were demolished and replaced with housing complexes closed, and book companies most complexes so that employees can spend annual holidays with their families. Ifrane and turned into a local tourist destination flocking to hundreds of wealthy families in summer and winter, to enjoy the scenic and wonderful atmosphere of the city as well as skiing. And it classified Ifrane city last year, the second-cleanest city in the world according to the site, "MBC Times" England, came this category thanks to its cleanliness and clean air.
