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Case: Chefchaouen, Morocco

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The answer

Chefchaouen, Morocco · MA

How the AI detective did

The AI placed its guess 126 km from the real location (it guessed Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, Morocco).

The final clue about a Mediterranean North African climate doesn't add much new information to differentiate from my previous guess. I am therefore moving my guess to Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, Morocco, a holy hill town with similar characteristics, though not in the Rif mountains.

The evidence the AI read

• architecture: Narrow medina alleys with every wall, step, and doorway washed in vivid blue. — A North African medina with one famous blue-painting tradition.
• architecture: Rounded arched doorways and rough lime-plastered walls line the stepped lanes. — A Maghreb medina idiom rather than the Levant or the Gulf.
• terrain: Steep stepped streets climb between the houses. — A hillside mountain town rather than a coastal port — a highland medina.
• climate: Dry, warm light with strong shadows on the plasterwork. — A Mediterranean North African climate.

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