10701070–1269 · Marrakesh medina
Almoravid and Almohad Marrakesh
The Almoravids, Berber reformers from the Sahara, founded Marrakesh around 1070 as the capital of an empire stretching from the Senegal River to Spain. Their successors the Almohads took the city in 1147 and built the Koutoubia Mosque, whose minaret was a model for Seville's Giralda and Rabat's Hassan Tower. The city later gave its name to Morocco in European languages.
Sites
- Site 1: Koutoubia MosqueThe 12th-century minaret, with the excavated base of the first mosque beside it.Map ↗
- Site 2: Almoravid QubbaA small domed ablutions pavilion, the city's only intact Almoravid building.Map ↗
- Site 3: Bab AgnaouThe carved stone gate of the Almohad royal kasbah.Map ↗
- Site 4: Tinmal Mosque, High AtlasMountain mosque where the Almohad movement began; damaged in the 2023 earthquake.Map ↗
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