Hassan Tower Rabat

We woke up cold - you gotta know that hardly anywhere you will find any heating in Moroccan hotels (well, at least of the standard we were choosing), so you can only rely on blankets - sometimes 2 or 3 of them to keep you warm at night. Anyway, here we were in Morocco and had to get used to that. Our breakfast at the hotel surprised us with a …

... Rabat, we visited the royal palace which is located right in the heart of the city, the Oudaya Kasbah, and the Hassan tower.  Located directly across from the Royal Palace is the King's personal mosque. Additionally we visited the Mausoleum of King ...

... .  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 ...

... . 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 ...

... style for Almohad construction and influenced almost all subsequent Moroccan minaret construction, including the (2) contemporary 12th century minarets: Hassan Tower 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 Hassan tower! 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 Hassan Tower 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 Hassan Tower.  The Hassan tower 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 Hassan tower 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 ...