🇲🇦 Morocco
10 best places in Rabat
Rabat is Morocco's elegant, unhurried capital on the Atlantic coast, where Roman ruins, a royal palace and a whitewashed kasbah sit alongside broad, European-style boulevards.
Kasbah des Oudayas
The blue-and-white lanes of a 12th-century fortified kasbah overlooking the Bou Regreg estuary.
Tour Hassan et Mausolée Mohammed V
An unfinished 12th-century minaret beside the mausoleum of Morocco's kings, the city's defining landmark.
Chellah
The ruins of Roman Sala and a medieval Marinid necropolis, overgrown with gardens and favoured by storks.
Musée Mohammed VI d'Art Moderne et Contemporain
Morocco's leading modern art museum, showcasing Moroccan and international artists.
Médina de Rabat
A compact old medina of craft shops, carpets and street cafés, calmer than Fez or Marrakech.
Rue des Consuls
The medina's main shopping street for carpets, leather, ceramics and antiques.
Jardins des Oudayas
An Andalusian garden inside the kasbah, planted with orange trees and overlooking the Atlantic.
Plage de Rabat
The city beach at the river mouth, popular with surfers and families on weekends.
Café Maure
A traditional Moroccan café serving mint tea on a terrace inside the Kasbah des Oudayas, overlooking the ocean.
Dinarjat
A Moroccan restaurant in a restored riad in the old medina, with live music.
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