Rabat is the capital of the Kingdom of Morocco and it is additionally the capital of the Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer locale of Morocco. The city is situated on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the stream Bou Regreg. On the meeting shore of the stream lies Sale, Rabat's area cluster. In 2007, the assessed populace of the two urban areas was 1.7 million. Tragically, silting issues have reduced the city's part as a port. Today Rabat and Sale are generally progressing in textile material, food handling and development industries. In the expansion, tourism and the closeness of all outside international safe havens in Morocco serve to make Rabat the second most essential city in the country after the bigger and all the more financially massive Casablanca.
At the point when the French moved their base in the mid-twentieth century, this walled medina by the ocean was the full degree of the city. Based on a precise framework in the seventeenth century, it is sufficiently little to be effortlessly explored into equal parts a day yet sufficiently expensive to make getting lost certain. The fundamental market road is Rue Souika, with region shopping on its western extent and shops equipped generally to travelers in the secured Souq as-Sebbat to its east.
- Grande Mosquee de Rabat Medina:
The Grande Mosquee de Rabat Medina, a fourteenth century Merenid unique that has been restored in the arbitrating years, symbolize the begin of the Souq as-Sebbat. On the off chance that you proceed past the Rue des Consuls (supposed on the grounds that speakers lived here until 1912), you'll go to the mellah (Jewish quarter) just before Bab el-Bahr and the waterway. Turning north along Rue des Consuls, which is home to many decorations shops, will take you to one of the all the more fascinating arrays of the medina, with funduqs (patio edifices) and some terrific previous appeasing residencies. At its northern end, the road ends in an open territory that was the setting for slave barters in the times of the Sallee Rovers. From here you can advance up the slope to the Kasbah Les Oudaias.
Food:
Most restaurants are on the real hiker lane of Ave Mohammed V, which keeps running between the Medina Rabat cable carriage stop and Ave Laalou, the medina's northern limit. Well known fast-food seams with road seating include Bidawai and Inza, and a parade of road dealers offer snacks, for example, babouche (little snails) served in an aromatic and hot soup, newly crushed sugar-stick juice, bisara (a thick soup produced using dried fava beans), syrup-drenched baked goods, naturally prepared bread and whatever new organic product is in season.
Martin Wynn
