Stories of the house

Stories, memory and discoveries around a historic house in the heart of the medina of Tangier.

Cinema

Inception in Tangier: Mamounia Palace, the Mombasa café

In the summer of 2009, Christopher Nolan shot in the medina under a false title. A location scouting document found in our archives names our house as the film's “Mombasa Coffee House”.

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History

Since 1960: Mamounia Palace and its founder

In 1967 the Tangier newspaper Norte interviewed Boubker Tazi, who founded the house. An archive that tells the story of a tourism pioneer.

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