An incredible lunch and wine-tasting experience (which also accommodates special requests, as in the case of my partner, who is vegan). It is a unique and welco...
Unfortunately, the famous Faras Gallery, Europe's largest collection of Nubian Christian art was under restoration and thus closed. Nonetheless, the visit was g...
Originally built in the 13th century, it is an extensive monument encompassing several buildings from different centuries. The Castelvecchio core, located on th...
Right in front of the Palazzo Thun, on the opposite side of the street is, in my opinion, the most beautiful palace in the city: Palazzo Geremia. Built between ...
The Palazzo Thun, dating to the 16th century and still with parts of its facade covered in frescoes. It is the city town hall and holds a nice courtyard which c...
I then entered the Palazzo Pretorio to visit the diocesan museum hosted inside. The collection is very large and ranges from the 11th to the 19th century and th...
The large Piazza Duomo, the main and largest square of the city. At its center stands the beautiful Fountain of Neptune dating to the 18th century. On the south...
Built during the 13th century in the Romanesque style, it features some Gothic additions such as the large rose window on the facade and a few features in the i...
The Franciscan Friary, originally built during the 13th century, however, its present form is mostly from the 14th century. It was bombed during WWII and thus ...
Right next to the mosque, on the southern side, is the entrance to the Saadian tombs. They were built at the end of the 16th century during the reign of the sul...
Built in the 12th century and probably the most important in the city after the Koutoubia one. It stands in a nice open square with interesting houses and featu...
We entered the Bahia Palace after paying the entry ticket. Quite filled with tourists, this 19th-century palace, as large as the previous one we visited but wit...
We passed by the Koutoubia Mosque which was unfortunately closed. Built during the 12th century under the Almohads, it has a beautiful minaret 77 meters in hei...
We entered the large complex of El Badi Palace, for a fee which we noticed was much higher than in other monuments in other cities of Morocco. The palace was bu...
The city of El Jadida, which mean "the new" in Arabic, once used to be a Portuguese stronghold before falling in Muslim hands in 1769. The stronghold, known as ...
To sustain a siege, they built an impressive cistern, which we entered by paying a small fee. An old man, which we thought was the guardian, followed us inside ...
The largest in Africa, and the fifth largest in the world it has the tallest minaret standing at 210m. It was built in 1993 and despite having a modern look to ...
Once a Phoenician trading emporium and then a Roman colony, it later became the site of a medieval fortified necropolis named Chellah. After paying a small ent...
This is the site where the Hassan Mosque was supposed to be built after the Almohad Caliph had decided to build the largest mosque during the 12th century. Unfo...
Kasbah of the Udayas, a large fortress containing the core of the old town. Located at the mouth of the Bou Regreg river, it was built during the 12th century b...