Essaouira — Skala and Old Port

Essaouira's Skala (Skala de la Ville / Skala du Port) comprises the fortified seafront ramparts built in the 18th century, equipped historically with cannons and providing viewpoints where the medina meets the Atlantic Ocean. The old port and adjacent fish market form the historic harbour area that sustained the city through the 19th century, when Essaouira (then Mogador) was an important Atlantic port. Contemporary travel sources present both the Skala ramparts and old port as active, publicly accessible tourist attractions and working fishing areas. The supplied research materials do not document any specific paranormal phenomena, named spirits, eyewitness accounts, or folkloric narratives linking drowned sailors' spirits to the Skala or the old port. While the user requested focus on stories of drowned sailors' spirits, the available references—travel guides, maps, photo essays, and an encyclopedia entry—describe the sites' history, architecture, and tourist uses and do not provide evidence of hauntings, apparitions, auditory phenomena, or traditional ghost lore tied to these locations. Any claims about drowned sailors' spirits at the Skala or old port are therefore unsupported by the provided sources and cannot be presented as factual or folkloric in this entry.