Rabat opens up only slowly to you. At the first day of your first arrival you will discover that there is another atmosphere here, and compared to other Moroccan cities people are a bit shy and don't start talking to you easily. Somehow, they don't care about you.
Walking your lonely walks around town, the many gems of a capital of a magic country reveals themselves to you. And it isn't always the things that are first seen that will keep your eyes entertained.



First picture to the left: From modern Rabat's busy streets.
Second picture: All that was built of that huge mosque 800 years ago — not even the minaretm, called Hassan tower, was finished.
Third picture: Rabat has one of Morocco's cutes and nicest old cities.

Modern Rabat is clean and open, perhaps a bit too open during the summer heat. But around it, there are both old Muslim quarters as well as beautiful remains from all periods of Moroccan history.