About Tiznit
Tiznit (in Arabic: تزنيت) is a town in southern Morocco, 690 km from Rabat and 80 km south of Agadir, the capital of the Tiznit Province, in the Souss-Massa-Draa region. The town's population is largely Amazigh.
The city was restored in 1882 by the Alaouite Sultan Hassan I, who provided it with a long wall that still encircles the old Medina. The El Mechouar square constitutes one of the city's centres, with the palace of Sultan Hassan I facing the building where, under the French protectorate, the representative of the French army was stationed.
The Medina is divided into four districts centred on a spring, the Blue Spring. This spring, which allowed for the irrigation of numerous gardens, established the city's reputation; however, it has lost much of its flow following the digging of the Reggada spring in the neighbouring Ouled Jerrar tribe.
Tiznit has acquired a great reputation for its goldsmithing, of which the fibula is the flagship symbol.
