As you walk up to the legation, you come down this very narrow alley called Uduh-de-Movie

or the American Street.

And it's a little alley with carved archways and a little sign that looks like it'll

be a very small space.

When you go in through the front doors and as you start walking and climbing stairs,

it opens itself to you and it reveals itself.

And it's actually a huge, a pretty big sprawling complex that goes over the street that you

walk in on.

We are actually built on both sides of the street and our main ballroom is over the alley

way that you use to enter the space.

And you go from this very tiny kind of small streets of the Medina to this really expansive,

well lit, beautiful sprawling space.

It's really magical.

I'm Dylan Thoris and this is Alice Obscura, celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

Today, we're going to Tengier on the northern tip of Africa to learn about the relationship

between the U.S. and Morocco and why Moroccans consider their country to be America's first

friend.

More after this.

I'm General Salmi Manana and I am the resident director of the Tengier American Legation

Institute for Moroccan Studies, which we call the Legation.

A legation is kind of like an embassy.

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