Tangier

In 1777 Morocco became the first country to recognise the United States, and in 1821 its sultan gave the Americans a building in Tangier, which they still own. The city spent much of the twentieth century as an international zone, and a certain kind of writer came for the rules that did not apply. What survives of that period is mostly small: a bookshop, a café on a cliff, a house the Saint Laurent circle used for summers.

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Villa Mabrouka (Marshan) — A 1940s modernist house that Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé bought in 1990 and kept as a summer retreat until Saint Laurent's death in 2008, with interiors by Jacques Grange. Jasper Conran bought it in 2019 and opened it as a hotel in 2023.