We had our first cultural excursion!
Friday after couscous with our family we went around on a tour of Rabat. We visited Chellah, Hassan 5 Tomb, and what was to be the largest mosque in the world, I think.
Chellah
The first of the three ancient Roman ruin sites in Morocco! The Roman town was known as Sala Colonia. The remaining Roman architecture shows a traditional principal Roman way (decumanus maximus), a forum, and a triumphal arch. It was abandoned in 1154 for a nearby sity, Sale.
It was interesting being at an ancient history site because there is no restriction upon touching anything, within reason. I was able to touch actual ancient Roman artifacts. It was pretty damn cool. A flock (?) of storks has taken up residence atop of the buildings and they are very loud and do this hilarious little dance! Chellah is maybe less than 20 minutes from my house, so I might go again one afternoon.
Friday after couscous with our family we went around on a tour of Rabat. We visited Chellah, Hassan 5 Tomb, and what was to be the largest mosque in the world, I think.
Chellah
The first of the three ancient Roman ruin sites in Morocco! The Roman town was known as Sala Colonia. The remaining Roman architecture shows a traditional principal Roman way (decumanus maximus), a forum, and a triumphal arch. It was abandoned in 1154 for a nearby sity, Sale.
It was interesting being at an ancient history site because there is no restriction upon touching anything, within reason. I was able to touch actual ancient Roman artifacts. It was pretty damn cool. A flock (?) of storks has taken up residence atop of the buildings and they are very loud and do this hilarious little dance! Chellah is maybe less than 20 minutes from my house, so I might go again one afternoon.
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Hassan 5/Mosque
I obviously didn't really care for this part much but it's cool what they tried to do. It has the tombs of some of the really important people in Moroccan history. They tried to build the largest call-to-prayer tower in the Arab world I think. They got 2/3rds of the way there, an earth quake tore it down, and they only built it up to a third of the original intended height.
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