Los caracoles. L'épopée d'une famille espagnole à travers l'Algérie et le Maroc

Oran – Saïda – Sidi-Bel-Abbès – Oujda – Casablanca – Port-Lyautey…

Here is the saga of the Riquelme family, a Spanish family who, at the end of the 19th century, left for Algeria and Morocco, where they settled for several generations.

They are part of the caracoles (snails), a nickname given to Spanish emigrants because they carried their house on their back.

Los caracoles – "the snails"

"The Spanish arrived in compact hordes in the province of Oran, accompanied by their wives and a swarming progeny.

They went off like this, sun-tanned and ragged, weighed down by the burden of poverty, towards the unknown, in search of a crust of bread." (Jean-Jacques Jordi, Espagnol en Oranie)