Royal Mansour

... these inflated prices (and one without a swat toilet for Leonie). Just as we almost gave up hope we came upon the Mansour hotel......granted the rooms were nothing flash but it was cheap, cheerful and a great source of information.   The ...

... Park (Ron Seyb, a trip like ours is calling you…). We arrived at the lovely, welcoming Dallas home of the Cooney-Mansour family late in the afternoon and jumped almost immediately into their pool – we’ve been blessed with clear, sunny ...

... expensive cafe where an espresso costs 30D, more than double what it would cost elsewhere.   Continued west along Yacoub el Mansour and managed to find a place that actually sold alcohol! I celebrated by buying a ring pull bottle of French red called ...

... grandiosity.  Beco,ing neglected; it was only in 1917 that an aerial photographer saw this great place, where Mansour's mother's huge mausoleum contains many tombs, decorated from above by painted and carved ceilings and fine intricate plasterwork ...

... gate. The gate, which was covered in several zellij mosaics (a traditional Moroccan pattern) was named after the architect El-Mansour, a Christian renegade who converted to Islam. According to legend, when the gate was finished, the sultan Moulay Ismail ...

... (Mohammed V and Hassan II) sited in a plaza filled with the ruins of the Hassan Mosque, built by Sultan Yacoub el Mansour at the end of the 12th century.  Unfortunately, the Sultan died before the ambitious project could be completed, thus leaving ...

...   fusion of sights, sounds and magical memories. I left the souqs and walked round to the ornate medina gate of Bab el-Mansour, where a side entrance gave access to  Place Lalla Aouida (PLA) – a pretty plaza-type area with shrubs and ...

... the city's hanging gardens. Some parts of the palaces/walls are under reconstruction. We see the main gate/ entrance (the Bab Mansour) to the Imperial City. Two marble columns on either side of the tiled gate were taken from the ancient Roman ruins of ...

... next morning took us to Meknes, sometimes called the "Moroccan Versailles" where we stopped to see the exquisite entrance gate, the Bab Mansour, in the city walls.  The city was founded at the end of the 17th century by Moulay Ismail, a countemporary ...

... . Overlooking the palace on a nearby hill stands the great vantage point of Fes. The fortress of Borj Nord built by Ahmad al Mansour in 1582 but looking fresh and restored. From here, we have fine views in all directions and it is very apparent how the ...

... 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 strikingly tall minaret (supposed to be 262 feet ...

... medina and decided to have a little lunch - camel burgers!   We wandered through, saw the huge gate of Bab el-Mansour (only opened on very very special occasions) and walked through the narrow streets of the medina to the camel ...

... to survive a long conflict. Passing by the tomb of Moulay Ismail, we stop at his grandly designed Victory Gate, the Bab Mansour, which was not completed until the reign of his son. It is decorated with ceramic tiles, and flanked by two square bastions ...

... intended to be the largest minaret and mosque in the world. Building began in 1195 AD but in 1199AD, Sultan Yacoub Al-mansour died and construction ended. The tower stands at 44m instead of the intended 86m. The Mausoleum contains the tombs of Mohammed V ...

... capital to the Almohads who succeeded them (1145-1248). Its glory days were under the greatest of the Almohad sultans, Yacoub el Mansour, who ruled all of the Mahgreb and most of Spain. He was responsible for building the 3 great minarets - the Koutoubia ...

... central plaza area of Meknes. We said goodbye and headed up the main street to see "the big door" also known as Bab el-Mansour. It is indeed a big door, with quite intricate tile work. We went inside a building which was under construction to get a better ...

Wow, it has been awhile since I've written.  2 big reasons for this.... I misplaced my computer.  I didn't exactly lost it because I know where it is but I am not in possession of it.  Embarassing story really but when we were flying our red-eye ...