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Today, the Kasbah remains a popular free tourist attraction within Rabat, offering scenic views of the waterfront of Rabat, the Bou Regreg river, neighboring Salé, and the Atlantic Ocean. It is mostly occupied as a residential neighborhood, known for its distinct blue and white walls.
View of the Kasbah of the Udayas from the city-facing side: the great gate is located uphill on the left. In 1150 or 1151, the Almohad ruler Abd al-Mu'min built a new kasbah (citadel) over the site of a former Almoravid ribat on the southwest shore of the Bou Regreg River, within which he included a palace and a mosque.
Construction of the Marrakesh kasbah began in 1185 and finished by 1190, though al-Mansur's successors continued to build more palaces within it, totaling twelve by the end of the Almohad period. [1] [2] [4] The Kasbah Mosque. The Almohad kasbah was a vast self-contained district surrounded by ramparts and further subdivided by inner walls.
Today, the site of Chellah has been converted to a garden and tourist attraction. It is part of the metropolitan area of Rabat. The site, as part of historic Rabat, was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2012. [7] It's also notable for hosting a large colony of storks, who nest in the trees as well as on the minaret of the ruined zawiya.
Rabat (/ r ə ˈ b ɑː t /, also UK: / r ə ˈ b æ t /, US: / r ɑː ˈ b ɑː t /; [3] [4] [5] Arabic: الرباط, romanized: ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) [2] and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million.
Remains of historic walls inside the Kasbah on the south side of Place Moulay el Yazid, near the mosque. The exterior of the Saadian Tombs is also partly visible on the left. The mosque is in the old Kasbah district of Marrakesh and is located not far from the El-Badi Palace and from the current Royal Palace still used by the Moroccan king ...
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The National Jewellery Museum, in French Musée national de la Parure, of Morocco is an ethnographic museum, located in the former Musée des Oudayas in the country's capital Rabat. Along with the Kasbah of the Udayas, the museum's buildings and Andalusian-inspired gardens are part of UNESCO's World Heritage sites in Rabat. [1]