... . very pretty. We also visited the Mausoleum of Mohammed V (the burial place of the King's father) with the HassanTower next to it, a quick look at the outside of the Royal Palace & the pretty Chellah Gardens. We finished the ...
... the Sale estuary to nearby Sale, another midieval town, and then we ambled along the riverfront to the heart of Rabat tourism, the HassanTower. Begun in 1196 by Yacoub El-Mansour to rival the mosque in Cordoba, Spain, the Hassantower was designed as ...
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Our second day we organized visas at the Indian embassy. Then we walked around the city. First stop was the Hassantower, which was started in 1195 and never completed. Directly beside the town was a large Mosque where prayer ...
... style for Almohad construction and influenced almost all subsequent Moroccan minaret construction, including the (2) contemporary 12th century minarets: HassanTower in Rabat (designed for 86m, but halted at 44m), and the beautiful La Giralda in Seville ...
... exciting could some ancient Roman ruins be?” They rocked my socks. It was probably even a tidbit more awesome than even the Hassantower! I really can’t explain how epic it was, but I’ll post a few photos and maybe you’ll get the ...
... recovered during excavations at Volubilis. From here we walked to the Hasssan Tower and Mausoleum of Mohammad V. The HassanTower is the unfinished project of the Almohad Sultan Yacoub Al’Mansour who desired to build the second biggest ...
... century. Unfortunately, the Sultan died before the ambitious project could be completed, thus leaving the unfinished minaret, now called the HassanTower. The Hassantower was never completed as King Hassan died prior to its completion; it ...
... the Andalusian gardens and past the hoards of kittens (and the henna ladies - they are ruthless!) we started walking down to the Hassantower and Mausoleum of Mohammed V. Loads and loads of locals were there (one thing i have noticed too -- ...
... station in Tangier. Here we left Vivian, as she was going straight to Marrakesh, and boarded our five hour train ride to Rabat, Morocco's capital. The Czech traveller, Gabriel, came on our train with us as it took him to his transfer stop on his way ...
... cheap lunch at a cafe and proceeded back across the bridge and back to Rabat.
After walking across the bridge we came across the HassanTower.It is an unfinished Mosque from the 12th century and it has a maze of columns in the courtyard of it. On ...