Rabat, Morocco's Capital, Place by Place
Video: Inside Morocco’s UNDERRATED Capital | Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2027 by Lonely Planet on YouTube
Video by Lonely Planet: Morocco's capital, Rabat, named stop by stop from the Hassan Tower in the opening seconds to Salé at 3:43.
Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2027 video calls its subject Morocco's underrated capital in the title, and the Hassan Tower in Rabat is named aloud three seconds in. From there the place names appear on screen, starting with the Oudaya Kasbah at 0:23, a kasbah being a fortified citadel. Rabat Beach follows at 0:49.
Café des Oudayas comes up at 1:01 and Riad Kika Salam at 1:18, a riad being a traditional house built around a courtyard. The Hassan Tower then returns, this time captioned, before the Mausoleum of Mohammed V and then Dar Naji, shown by name at 1:58.
The Rabat Medina, a medina being a city's old town, is captioned at 2:36. At 3:32 the video shows the Bou Regreg River, and eleven seconds later the caption reads Salé.
