On a recent sun-drenched winter’s day in Tangier, 50 guests celebrated New Year’s Eve around a long table on the veranda at British designer Jasper Conran’s hotel Villa Mabrouka.
Though the catastrophic September earthquake shook the tourism industry, daily life in Morocco’s northernmost city is back to normal. Many of its part-time residents have returned, and every night a social gathering of some kind takes place in the city—from the walled medina palaces to the hilltop villas of the Vieille Montagne district.
