Hotel Chellah

... was advised by the loud whistles of the security that it was about to close. So Medina - check, Kasbah - check, Mausoleum - check, and Chellah - check.  My sightseeing was done for the day, I headed back to the hotel, took a shower, got some dinner ...

... on the day. Just after 07:00 we left our hotel and walked the couple of kilometres to reach Sala Colonia and Chellah which is the joint archaeological site of Roman and Islamic ruins respectively.  The Roman ruins of Sala Colonia were nowhere near ...

... sounds could be heard everywhere in the gardens and I’m sure the cats that were roaming around were nervous! After Chellah, we drove for 3 hours to Meknes, an imperial city that has amazing and stunningly decorated city gates.  The governor of ...

... and servants.  The grounds are beauitully landscaped and it was a good introduction to Rabat.  Next we visited Chellah.  It includes wild gardens, ruins of a Roman town that existed from thefirst century BC, up to bunkers built ...

... view over the valley and settled down on the sunbed in the warm sunshine. The peace was wonderful, the first I had experienced since Chellah and it was fantastic lying there, alone with my thoughts. After about 30 minutes, I could feel my eyes closing and ...

... had our last Arabic lesson as well as a lecture from Dr. Mohammed Kebib.  During the day we took a side trek to the Chellah which are partially roman ruins as well as an Islamic burial ground.  This was one of my favorite things to see because ...

Woke up to beautiful sunshine and it was just another day in Morocco, no celebrations of course. We drove to Chellah, on the outskirts of Rabat. This was once a prosperous Roman town and then transformed into a cemetery by the Mirinids, according to the ...

... were turned away at the gates, foreigners were not welcome obviously! Heading outside the old city walls, we went to see the Chellah. This was an an old Roman settlement that was founded almost 2000 years ago. Inside, there were loads or interesting Roman ...

... of other pre-historic finds.  However, the really interesting pieces were from those found in previous Roman settlements in Volubilis, Chellah and Lixus, where the musuem had lots of superb statues, artefacts and ceramics in very fine detail, some as ...

    Well it Thursday came and went, we went to this ancient city in Rabat called Chellah. It was founded by the Phoenicians, the Romans took it over for some time, and then Moroccan Kings. Anyway, we get in and it was pretty cool to see old ...

... the Westernmost outpost of the Roman Empire, Sala Colonia.  Their forum and walled enclosure is still in tact, called the Chellah, after the original name of the Moroccan town. Rabat has been a sanctuary and hotbed over the centuries.  Favored ...

... 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 day by driving to Fes where we went for dinner and returned to our hotel for a few ...

... . Morocco's well-heeled intelligentsia has migrated to this orderly administrative hub. Just outside of the city are the ruins of Chellah, an ancient Roman city now populated by storks who have built their massive nests high in the ruined spires of the ...

... and evolved over the course of the past few decades. Our group then headed to the outskirts of Rabat where we saw ruins of Chellah, built by the Romans in the 3rd century AD. Morocco has been in the hands of so many different powers over the centuries ...