Tangier time: a renaissance is under way in Tangier, Morocco's famously shabby port city. Some hope the sprucing up won't go too far.(Travel Flash)

W | November 1, 2007| | Copyright

Plenty of places have been mythologized over the years as glamorous bastions of ill repute, but Tangier in the Forties and Fifties was one of the few that actually lived up to its bad name. Part of an international zone on the North African coast that was officially ruled by nine nations, the city was effectively governed by none of them--so its habitues could get away with things they'd never attempt back home. Spies and arms dealers gathered in seedy cafes; aging Englishmen entertained offers from Arab boys; American heiress Barbara Hutton hosted drug-fueled parties at her ...

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