Neighbourly artwork

A MEMBER of the Moroccan royal family turned up at an exhibition of nine artists from Gibraltar at the Kent Gallery in Tangier as part of a cultural exchange.

Gibraltar Minister for Culture and the Environment John Cortes opened the art exhibition attended by artists and local musicians.

“The cultural connections this artistic exchange is already generating will serve to significantly bring our communities closer through culture, understanding, and friendship,” Seamus Byrne, head of

Gibraltar Cultural Services said.

Royal family member Lala Malika Alaoui also showed Cortes around the Donabo Tangier Botanical Gardens she oversees.

The gardens are located in a forest area of Tangier overlooking the sea and features its own cafe built using traditional methods.

Cortes said he saw ‘so many parallels’ in the Donabo Gardens to his own work at the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens.

“Discussions with our hostess highlighted the many possibilities of fomenting cultural, social and educational links between Gibraltar and Tangier further,” he added.