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Hassan Tower in Rabat
Hassan Tower in RabatPhotograph · Bernard Gagnon · Source · CC BY-SA 3.0
Layers of a capital

Rabat

An old gateway, an unfinished minaret and modern architecture invite a closer look at urban memory.

Stories of the city

Stories of the city

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Hassan Tower: reading the unfinished

Columns and tower share the frame, inviting a question about a project left incomplete. Read this Almohad monument in Rabat alongside the Kutubiyya in Marrakesh, noticing both kinship and difference.

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The Udayas gate: crossing scales

A substantial stone façade surrounds an opening towards another space. Pause at the Udayas gate to read a threshold, then connect it to Rabat as a city of layers rather than an image of one era.

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Rabat: different times in one view

The Mohammed V Mausoleum occupies the foreground, with a modern tall building on the horizon. The photograph cannot summarise a capital’s history, but it opens a way to see memory beside a city still growing.

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