Medina, Tangier, Morocco pictured on December 18, 2009. A boy walks confidently along a street, past the old houses with crumbling white washed walls, balconies and roof terraces. Tangier, the 'White City', gateway to North Africa, a port on the Straits of Gibraltar where the Meditaerranean meets the Atlantic is an ancient city where many cultures, Phoenicians, Berbers, Portuguese and Spaniards have all left their mark. With its medina, palace and position overlooking two seas the city is now being developed as a tourist attraction and modern port. Picture by Manuel Cohen