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| Koukabia Mosque, originally built 1147 |
MONDAY 2 JUNE 2008
We visited the Dar Si Said Museum which is set in a 19th century palace with beautiful gardens. Some of the rooms have superb carved cedar domed ceilings.
We visited the Dar Si Said Museum which is set in a 19th century palace with beautiful gardens. Some of the rooms have superb carved cedar domed ceilings.
We then went to the highly decorated Saadian Tombs which date from about 16th century. The central room has a carved cedar dome with gold-leaf decoration supported by 12 marble columns.
The next palace we visited was the very large Palais Bahia which has beautiful cedar ceilings and is decorated with tiles, marble and a arabesque. Non muslims are not allowed in the Koutoubia Mosque but it is possible to walk around the outside. The original mosque was replaced because the qibla did not point directly to Mecca. The mosque was built about 1147 and its minaret, which is 230 feet tall, was used as a model for the Giralda in Seville.
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