Hotel Chellah

... monastary known as a ribat. This where the city gets its name.  A small group of volunteers and I returned to the chellah the following night for the Jazz Au Chellah Festival and th emost bizarre thing happened, I was interviewed by the Berber news, ...

    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 ...

... beautiful as its other cities, nor as historically rich. The city boasts a number of palaces owned by the king and the Chellah Roman Ruins, which is a very interesting place. I saw Chellah in the pouring rain, and I still remember thinking how beautiful it ...

... building. But the building was halted mid-construction.    After the Tour Hassan, we taxied our way over to Chellah. Pronunciation lesson (since I didn’t know- I should have though): it’s pronounced “Shellah” since “ ...

... in 8BC at what is now the Chellah area. Once a prosperous Roman town and transformed by the Merinids into a cemetery, the Chellah is a fascinating place to visit. Later we drive on to Meknes, once the heart of the Moroccan Sultanate. 'The Sultan loved ...