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   Hassan Tower

   The minaret of a mosque begun in 1195 by the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur and abandoned when he died four years later. It stands forty-four metres of an intended sixty, above a field of two hundred stumped columns that were never roofed.

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   Chellah

   A walled necropolis on the Bou Regreg where the Marinid sultans buried their dead from the fourteenth century, laid over the Roman town of Sala. Storks nest on its ruined minaret and eels are fed in the pool below.

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   Mausoleum of Mohammed V

   A white marble mausoleum finished in 1971 across the esplanade from the Hassan Tower, holding Mohammed V, who negotiated independence, and his sons Hassan II and Prince Abdallah. Royal guards stand at the doors and non-Muslims may go in, which is rare in Morocco.

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   The Great Mosque of Salé

   The Almohad Friday mosque of Salé, five thousand square metres and the third largest in the country. Non-Muslims cannot enter it, but the Abu al-Hasan madrasa of 1341 attached to its flank is open and has the finest Marinid carving on the coast.

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   Russian Orthodox Church in Rabat

   The Church of the Holy Resurrection, built for White Russian émigrés who reached Morocco in the 1920s, and the oldest of the three working Orthodox churches in the country. It is small, whitewashed and still under the Moscow patriarchate.

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   St. Peter's Cathedral (Rabat)

   The Catholic cathedral of Rabat, built between 1921 and 1930 in a stripped art deco with two square white towers, on a square in the French-built new town. It still serves a congregation, now mostly sub-Saharan African students and workers.

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   Ahl Fez Mosque

   A mosque at the Al-Sayeed parade ground in Rabat, built in the eighteenth century under the Alaouite sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah, and used for official Friday prayers.

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   Dar al-Makhzen

   The main residence of the king of Morocco, inside the walled quarter of Touarga in Rabat. The palace itself is closed, but the parade ground, the gates and the mosque within the enclosure can be walked past.

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   Bab Lakbir

   The monumental gate of the Kasbah of the Udayas, built about 1195 in cut stone carved with palmettes and shells. It is generally reckoned the finest surviving gate of Almohad architecture, and it never had doors.

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    Moulay Slimane Mosque

    A mosque of 1812 built by the Alawi sultan Moulay Slimane, and the second largest in the medina north of the Andalusian wall. It stands on the main street of the old town and is in daily use.

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   Rabat Zoo

   A zoo outside Rabat opened in 1973 with lions from the royal palace, thought to descend from the Barbary lion that no longer exists in the wild. It moved to a larger site in 2012 and runs a breeding programme for them.

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   Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

   A museum opened in Rabat in 2014, the first purpose-built museum in Morocco since independence, showing Moroccan painting from the twentieth century alongside touring international exhibitions.

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   The Great Mosque of Rabat

   The main Friday mosque of the Andalusian quarter of Rabat's medina, also known as the cobblers' mosque after the trade that worked around it. It is the largest in the old walled city.

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   Bab ar-Rwah

   A monumental gate in the Almohad ramparts, built around 1197 under Yaqub al-Mansur. Its name means 'Gate of the Winds'; behind the carved horseshoe arch the bent entrance passage now serves as an exhibition hall.

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   Sala Colonia

   A Phoenician trading post that became the Roman colony of Sala, the empire's most southwesterly town in Africa, and later the Marinid burial ground. Forum, baths and a main street survive among the later tombs.

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   Sunnah Mosque

   A large mosque on the avenue that runs to the royal palace, built in the eighteenth century and much enlarged since. The king sometimes attends Friday prayers here, which closes the street.

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   Oudaya museum

   A museum inside the Kasbah of the Udayas, in a palace built by Moulay Ismail in the seventeenth century, with an Andalusian garden beside it. It reopened in 2023 as the national museum of jewellery.

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   Museum of History and Civilizations in Rabat

   Morocco's main archaeological museum, opened in 1932 in Rabat. Its bronzes from Volubilis, including the head of the Berber king Juba II, are the best Roman sculpture found in the country.

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   Andalusian wall of Rabat

   The wall that closes the southern side of Rabat's medina, built in the seventeenth century by Muslims expelled from Spain who settled here and, for a time, ran the port as a corsair republic.

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    National Photography Museum

    A museum of photography opened in 2020 in the nineteenth-century Borj Kebir fort above the ocean, showing Moroccan photography and the archives of those who documented the country under the protectorate.

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