On 20 November 2010, along with three other Mediterranean communities, including Soria in Spain, Coron in Greece and Cilento in Italy, the city of Chefchaouen was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Chefchaouen is a city in northwestern Morocco, built at 600 m altitude at the foot of the Kelaa and Meggou mountains. The name of the city comes from the Berber Achawen, "the horns", because of the mountainous peaks that dominate and surround the city. It was founded in the year 876 of the Hegira, 1471 of the Christian era, by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami.