Hassan Tower Rabat

... .  very pretty.  We also visited the Mausoleum of Mohammed V (the burial place of the King's father) with the Hassan Tower 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 Hassan Tower. Begun in 1196 by Yacoub El-Mansour to rival the mosque in Cordoba, Spain, the Hassan tower was designed as a ...

... Our second day we organized visas at the Indian embassy.  Then we walked around the city.  First stop was the Hassan tower, which was started in 1195 and never completed.   Directly beside the town was a large Mosque where prayer was in ...

... exciting could some ancient Roman ruins be?” They rocked my socks. It was probably even a tidbit more awesome than even the Hassan tower! I really can’t explain how epic it was, but I’ll post a few photos and maybe you’ll get the ...

... century.  Unfortunately, the Sultan died before the ambitious project could be completed, thus leaving the unfinished minaret, now called the Hassan Tower.  The Hassan tower was never completed as King Hassan died prior to its completion; it ...

... Andalusian gardens and past the hoards of kittens (and the henna ladies - they are ruthless!) we started walking down to the Hassan tower and Mausoleum of Mohammed V.   Loads and loads of locals were there (one thing i have noticed too -- not ...

... train 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 Hassan Tower.It is an unfinished Mosque from the 12th century and it has a maze of columns in the courtyard of it. On one ...

... and needed all the cold weather gear in her missing luggage. The weather was really beautiful now as we arrived in Rabat at the Hassan Tower and Mausoleum of Mohammed V. The Hassan Tower is the minaret of an unfinished mosque which was intended to be the ...

Day 2 Drive to the modern capital, Rabat. In the afternoon visited the area around the Hassan Tower and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, before wandering through the Kasbah des Oudaias, originally a fortified town, now with a distinctly Andalucian influence ...

... of activity on the Sale side of the river, with fisherman selling their catch. In the afternoon we walked to the Hassan Tower, a great unfinished monument, abandoned on Hassan's death. In the same area we saw the amazing mausoleum of Mohammed V, one ...

... "worked" at the hospital today for a few hours and then we went as a group to the Medina, the Casbah, the Hassan Tower and the Moseleum of Mohammad V. Rabat is an interesting city. look it up if you get a chance. lots of walking, lots of sun. the weather ...