Every year the small port of Assilah plays host to a cultural festival, the most striking aspect of which {for me} is the painting of the medina walls. Their whitewashed surfaces provide a year long canvas to works created by visiting artists. The week before the festival, as you walk through the medina in the mornings - en route to your morning cafe au lait perhaps? - you can follow the transformation from blank canvas to colourful completion . . .
and then they are whitewashed off again to clear the canvas for the next years artists
and the walls are filled with colour for yet another year
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| image by Mário Tomé via AsilahInfo.com |
