The four royal cities <\/strong>with their centuries-old medinas are among the highlights of Moroccan culture. In Rabat<\/strong>, the political capital, you will find the mausoleum of King Mohammed V, the father of independence and the Hassan Mosque, which dates from the 12th. This unfinished mosque, with its three hundred columns, should have become the largest mosque in the Arab world after that of Mecca. In Fez<\/strong>, Morocco’s oldest royal city, you can dream away in a beautiful and luxurious riad. In F\u00e8s, which is not only the religious center of Morocco but also the artisan ‘capital’, is the royal palace: the Dar-al-Makzin. This palace can be visited only from the outside.Meknes<\/strong> is beautifully situated on a hill on the wadi Bou Fekrane in the fertile Sa\u00efs plain. Rabat, Fez, Meknes and Marrakech: seats of glorious dynasties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":338397,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[228],"highlight_category":[602,600],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-225942","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-morocco","highlight_category-gebied-en","highlight_category-hoogtepunt-en","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/225942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/225942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336309,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/225942\/revisions\/336309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=225942"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=225942"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=225942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThey are the cities that were designated as the capital by the ruling sultan during different dynasties, and where during the heyday of the respective dynasty they invested heavily in fine palaces, mosques and Koranic schools.
\nDuring French rule, they built more accessible new cities, the Ville Neuves.
\nIt had the unintended consequence of leaving the traditional medinas largely untouched, and like a living picture book, the medinas tell much about the bygone times of glorious dynasties. <\/p>\nRabat, Fez, Meknes and Marrakech<\/h3>\n
\nIn the seventeenth century, Meknes was the capital of the powerful empire of the Alaouites. Sultan Moulay Ismael had the old Kasbah of the Marinids demolished and replaced by a city wall with beautiful gates. The Bab al Mansour is considered the most beautiful. The kasbah houses the mausoleum of this sultan.
\nIn Volubilis<\/strong>, the country’s holiest site, you will dwell on the remains of this largely earthquake-ravaged, historic city from around the beginning of our era.
\nRemains of a basilica, forum, triumphal arch and the many mosaic floors are reminders of this era. Marrakech<\/strong><\/a> is a wonderful destination for a city break. This colorful city is described separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"