Spain to Donate Historic Cervantes Theater in Tangier to Morocco

Thus, according to this decision, the Council authorizes Spain and Morocco to sign a protocol agreement "granting, in an irrevocable manner" the Cervantes Grand Theater in Tangier, specifies a press release from the Spanish executive. The Moroccan government, for its part, undertakes to restore and manage the theater while preserving the Spanish character of the premises and its programming.

As this is an international agreement, this agreement must first be validated by the two chambers of the Spanish parliament, we read in the press release from the Spanish executive, which recalls that this monument is "one of the most important cultural buildings in the city of the Strait" while having a "great architectural value that needs to be rehabilitated".

If the two countries manage to reach an agreement today, it is because they have been gently pushed by an appeal from Moroccan and Spanish architects in 2014 who urged them to safeguard this open-air masterpiece built more than a century ago (December 1913).