Tangier

Tangier has always been a threshold. Fourteen kilometres from Tarifa, the city perches at the meeting of two seas and two continents, and its light has lured Delacroix, Matisse, Bowles, and the Rolling Stones in turn. Today's Tangier is a renaissance — the new TGV connects it to Casablanca in two hours, Tangier Med has become the largest port in Africa, and the Kasbah's whitewashed lanes shelter a quiet wave of new boutique riads. Our chauffeurs work the entire spectrum: the discreet transfers from Ibn Battouta Airport to Villa Mabrouka, the cross-strait logistics for clients arriving by yacht at the Marina Bay, the diplomatic missions between the corniche and the European consulates that still occupy their century-old palaces. The Hotel La Mamounia? That is Marrakech. Here, it is the Villa Joséphine on the Old Mountain, the Fairmont Tazi Palace, the El Minzah which has hosted Churchill, Hayworth, and a parade of agents whose names history declines to record. Beyond the city: Cap Spartel and the Caves of Hercules at sunset, Asilah's painted walls, and Chefchaouen — the Blue City — a 2-hour ascent into the Rif. Tangier with Noor Elite is the Mediterranean's most cinematic chauffeur brief.