Historia de Tanger

Shelter of spies, smugglers and uprooted people, refuge of exiles and emigrants, promised land for professionals and artists, industrialists and traders... the international city of Tangier is more than a myth. Everyone longed to find in it the security, freedom, opportunities and peace that they did not enjoy in their countries of origin. The reader of this book will know a Tangier that became a cosmopolitan microcosm of great ethnic diversity and that experienced in a short time and, mainly, in the fifties, an enormous economic, social and cultural development. Muslims, Jews, Christians, Christians and Hindus, as well as people of the most diverse nationalities, coexisted within its walls with respect and tolerance. All these circumstances, as well as countless texts and films, contributed to the birth of the myth of Tangier which, today, more than fifty years later, lives on both in the minds of the Tangierites that the diaspora dispersed around the world and in those who remained in the city. A book that is a faithful testimony of the rich history and the various aspects that contributed to the exceptional nature of the city-state of Tangier, which will never be repeated.

Leopoldo Ceballos López vivió toda su niñez y la mayor parte de su juventud en Tánger. Es licenciado en derecho y técnico comercial y economista del Estado. Ejerció la abogacía en Tánger, durante cinco años, hasta 1962, año en el que se trasladó a Madrid. Desde entonces, desarrolló su actividad profesional, principalmente, en el sector exterior, ocupando distintos cargos en la Administración española y en varios organismos y empresas públicas y privadas, tanto en España como en el extranjero. Ha sido consejero económico y comercial de las Embajadas de España en Argel, Túnez, Copenhague, Oslo, Vilnius y Tel Aviv (con competencia en Palestina). Ha sido profesor de ICADE y director de su Curso Superior de Comercio Exterior.