Essaouira was, from the early nineteenth century, the most important port in Morocco, enabling the exchange of various goods to all corners of the known world. The importance was such that traders joined sub-Saharan Africa and to Timbuktu and the various tribes of the Atlas mountains and the city of Marrakech. Typical Berber constructions built with mud bricks and flat roofs have changed little over the centuries. The homes, located in the Atlas Mountains, rising to a height of three or four plants depending on the number of people making up the family. Although Tafraoute itself has hardly changed in recent years, if they have the surrounding villages, mainly located under the mass of Jbel Leskt, which closes the valley by the norte.- These towns, surrounded by almond, olive , argan trees and palm trees have been growing in a visible manner parallel to the decline of traditional architecture and the invasion of concrete.