What You Should Know About Morocco Ancient Sites.

What do you expect when you travel to Morocco? Are you aware that during the second centuries, Romans occupied Morocco by defeating the entire Carthaginians, which reigned over the Northern African region for several hundred years? Their existence in the Moorish land influence several architectural designs that can still be seen in modern Morocco.

Camels & the Berber people

When someone mentions Morocco, you would probably imagine great wilderness, traveling camels as well as the word ‘Moorish’, which is a common expressions. However, if you never visited Morocco before, you should know that it is also recognized for their many ruins influenced by invaders from different cultural background such as the Romans. The most common Morocco tours usually consist of visits to these ancient ruins such as the Volubilis ancient ruins.

Volubilis 

When you travel to Morocco, visiting the ancient ruins, you will discover that they were built in an area surrounded by lush vegetation and beautiful calming streams. A long time back, the Volubilis ancient ruins was once a significant Roman community and was constructed within the conquered Carthaginians’ townships. Several archaeological excavations manage to show that the ruins used to hold gorgeous residence, massive gateways, plus other magnificent structural design. The site is known as part of UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the places you should visit when you travel to Morocco.

Would you like to know other interesting destinations, which are the usual part of a basic Morocco tours?

If you call your travel agents on Morocco holidays, they would usually highlight the Sahara desert as well as the vast mountain range known as High Atlas. There are actually other ancient sites within Morocco but either they were not properly maintained, protected by the authorities or the ancients sites had been integrated as part of the urban centers.

Koutoubia mosque

The famous world traveler Ibn Battuta, was once describe an ancient city that are filled with gold and known as City of Gold or Sijilmasa. But the cities had fallen in disrepair that many Morocco tours does include that in their list. Hopefully, the Morocco government would look into these problems and help to build back this cities. I’m sure that more tourist would go for Morocco holidays.

Some of these architectural designs still showed deep Moroccan influence such as the Koutoubia Mosque of Marrakesh. Or if you are in Rabat, check out the columns and minaret of Hasan Mosque.

The ancient sites and building are an important part of Morocco. It presents visitors with a turbulent history at the hand of many foreigners. It showed how the Berber people fight for their land and for their freedom. Each site tells a different story. You really should include visiting these architectural sites and building as part of your Morocco holidays.

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