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French daily “Le Figaro” extolled on Saturday the many advantages of traveling by train in Morocco, through a Tangier-Marrakech itinerary “tested and approved by the editorial staff.”
“With the commissioning in 2018 of the very first African High-speed rail, Moroccan rail transport has gained in comfort and speed,” writes the French newspaper in an article titled: ‘From the Mediterranean to the desert gates: why the train is an excellent way to cross Morocco’.
In this article, Le Figaro, which highlights “the ambitious rail development plan of the Moroccan National Railways Office (ONCF),” takes its readers on a journey through the Kingdom’s rail network, which, according to the newspaper, is set for a bright future, thanks in particular to the 2030 World Cup (Morocco-Spain-Portugal) “with two key goals: to extend the LGV to Marrakech and Agadir, and to link 43 towns, compared with just 23 today, by conventional train.”
The itinerary chosen by Le Figaro for this initiatory journey stretches from Tangier to Marrakech, via Rabat, “a delight when the old ramparts, the Mohammed VI Tower (250 m high) and the futuristic grand theater (designed by Zaha Hadid)”, Casablanca, which is undergoing ‘a fabulous architectural adventure’, then Marrakech, whose railway station ‘hailed for its architecture’ has also been resized to keep pace with the soar in rail traffic.
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