Sunrise over the Atlas/Photo by Mac
Privately funded restorations of Tangier's most famous landmarks are helping to return Tangier to its former glory. The Librairie des Colonnes, the legendary bookshop haunt of Samuel Beckett and other authors was restored in 2011. At the Grand Hotel Villa de France, a whole room has been preserved in honor of painter Henri Matisse and reopened last year. The Tangier Inn, the famous hangout of the beat generation, had a facelift last year too.
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