About Rabat

This capital city was named one of the "Top Travel Destinations of 2013" by CNN. Rabat is cosmopolitan, conservative, laid-back and historic. Here you will find a walled city of palm-lined boulevards, a clifftop kasbah, colonial architecture and a mazelike medina (Old City). Some of Rabat’s must-see attractions include the ruins of the old Roman city of Sala Colonia and the Merenid necropolis of Chellah, whose towers and defensive wall still stand today.

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Attractions around Rabat

Hassan Tower

This red-sandstone minaret of an incomplete mosque is Rabat’s most famous landmark. Hassan Tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world but in 1199, Sultan Yacoub al-Mansour died and construction on the mosque stopped. The tower reached 140 feet, about half of its intended height, and the rest of the mosque was also left unfinished.