Thursday, August 23, 2012

Layers of history

One thing about being a cross roads to the sea and Europe, morocco has been invaded and ruled by many different groups. Today we visited early Roman ruins dating back to 200 BC. Most of the movable items have been stolen or, now, relocated tothe archaeological museum, but therer re seitol the outines of  homesnad tiels sh the road. It was there about 600 years. Typical of Roman ruins - even in Rome- they could use a good lesson from Disney as far as adding shade trees, expanitory signs and better walking paths. Currently it was just rocks. But really old rocks put in place a long time ago.

Which had been built over by a mosque and school where you could still see the sleeping room and bathrooms with pipes plus two minarets with huge stork nests on top. In fact many storks build on mosques and they are not removed because it is good luck. Rabat is on a migration path, but the birds had gone north.

There was a lovely valley and of course many sleeping cats. Cats are everywhere in Rabat.

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