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 ...

... (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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 place.   ...

... 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 ...