Showing posts with label Ouadhias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ouadhias. Show all posts

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Historical monuments

Although Rabat modern city without deep history that Papi " Alruah " and " Ouadhias " which are located on the western side of the fence , and characterized architectural and historical meshed and engraved words written in Kufic script , considered to be the outstanding achievements of art Almohad at the height of its prosperity , has shifted Chapters currently to Eat Art Gallery particular drawing , where displays Visitors months of Moroccan and international painters . It must also raise the profile of the ruins of the mosque Hassan huge stretches over an area of ??two hectares and a half , has left the mosque to be completed without completion  the famous minaret is still witness to the largest urban project done by Unitarians . Next to find the tomb of the late King Mohammed V and who was buried by his son , King Hassan II
   
Kashba Ouadhias Stalk of doors

The Kashba Ouadhias originally a fortress , was built by the tribes to fight stationed Visitors, and increased importance in the era of uniform, who made them bond on the estuary of the Bouregreg Valley to launch military campaigns against the Spaniards and they called Mahdia . After Unitarian , became neglected to be settled Almaurickjon who came from Andalusia , they reopened the life fortified walls and make it home to the historic Bouregreg statelet . In the era of Alawites , known
Kashba Ouadhias several changes and reforms between 1757 ؤ 1789 , as well as between 1790 and 1792. This site has been known history of diverse and distinct , reflected especially in buildings that make up The Kashba Ouadhias  Fssorha Almohad door and archaeological ( big door ) are considered symbols of Almohad architecture , in addition to the mosque known as the old mosque . The facilities in the upper Vttgly fences Rashidiya , and Amiri Palace , which is located in the west as well as its military installations scaffolding

Remained Challa deserted since the fifth century until the tenth century, where turning the site to the ligament gather the Mujahideen to face the tribe Visitors but this historic juncture remains vague to be taken Sultan Almareni Abu Yusuf Ya'qub in 1284 from the site cemetery for the burial of kings and dignitaries built Marin where built the first nucleus of the complex Dara included a mosque and the Dome of the ablutions and buried by his wife or splendor

Part of the city wall

Challa benediction on the reign of Sultan Abu al-Hasan with great interest . His son, Sultan Abu Annan has completed the project , he built north of the mosque and the school bathroom and Zain and decorated the tombs of his ancestors considered a living example of the architectural art of the outstanding state of Bani Marin . Fell Challa immediately after the decision Meridinide reopen the tomb of the few Fez , their buildings  and even suffered at the beginning of the fifteenth century AD to the looting and destruction of reserves ancient and living thanks to the memories of ancient history on the sidelines of the city of Ribat al-Fath , and gradually become a cemetery and a place of pilgrimage for the static region , but also marked a historical distinct attract attention

In the fourteenth century ( 1339 ) surrounded by a fence pentagon Site twenty three square towers and gates of the largest and most beautiful decoration and the main door of the building site opposite the wall of the Almohad ligament Open . The site has been the construction of four groups of independent and integrated architecture embodies all the grandeur and prestige of the Covenant Cemetery Challa Marini

In the western corner of the site rises remnants which was home to the pilgrims and visitors at the bottom stands the remains of the cemetery Marinid known Balakhlup , which includes a mosque and a series of domes notably the Dome of the Sultan Abu al-Hasan and his wife Sun morn , and the school that remains lighthouse covered with ornately geometric intertwined and integrated masterly made a model authentic Moroccan architecture in the fourth century the tenth

This fence was built by the Almohad Sultan Yacoub El Mansour , with a length of 2263 m , which runs from west to the southern city of Rabat , with a width of 2.5 m and its height of 10 meters and this wall is supported by 74 towers , as punctuated 5 doors

Hassan Tower

Is one of the distinctive historic buildings located in Rabat appointed by the visitor , was built by the Almohad Sultan Yacoub El Mansour , was considered one of the largest mosques in his reign  But this ambitious project stopped after his death in 1199 , as was the extinction due to the earthquake that hit the year 1755 . And experiencing its effects on the magnitude of the original building of the mosque , where up to a length of 180 meters and width 140 meters , as evidenced by the silo , which is one of the three sisters of the Koutoubia minaret in Marrakech, and the Giralda in Seville on the existence of the mosque and bulkiness . Is a square-shaped stand tall as 44 meters up height , and her early internal warped , leading to higher silo and passes on six rooms form layers . The decorated their windows four different motifs and inscriptions carved in stone and that the Moroccan Andalusian-style of the twelfth century

Dar Sultan

Dar Sultan is located a cave on the coast south of Rabat . Layers of the site showed the presence of levels due to the following periods: Neolithic period, then top . This cave is of great importance as it was found in 1975 on the remains of the skull of a human being due to the period . This residue is a sane person with some characteristics of primitive skull

This site is located 30 km from Rabat, which is a cemetery was discovered in 1980. Yielded fossils fervor that has been carried out in 1982 on the results of a task for the Neolithic where human remains have been discovered and a host of archaeological finds critical: ceramic pots, utensils of ivory and ivory .... Costume of the historical period that you belong to this cemetery is the era Neolithic and middle stages of modern and chronicling about 3800 BC. AD