Rabat may well be Morocco's most civilized city, yet most travelers pass it by. Once a fearsome pirates' den, Rabat looks at first suspiciously clean, yet it proved on exploring to be authentically mazelike, with crowded bazaars, eerily empty alleyways, a cliff-top castle by the ocean, and a postcard-perfect cove down below in the estuary of the Bouregreg River, where fishermen spread their twitching, glistening prizes on a crescent-shaped beach. Like all Moroccan cities, Rabat also has an adjacent ville nouvelle, laid out when the country was a French protectorate.
Read the articleDestinations: Rabat
Themes: Food + Drink · Hotels + Resorts · Romantic Getaways
Inspired by: Rabat: Morocco's Forgotten Gem — by Max Rodenbeck, Published Feb. 2006
