Author: Pilot Guides

Morocco’s capital since 1912, Rabat is a modern city of over a million that wears its history on its be-suited sleeves. Amidst its broad avenues, main streets lined with newsagents, shops, cinemas and cafés, a central park and suburban quarters for its ministries and diplomats are many monuments to its past. 

This modern city, a world away from the picturesque scenes of Marrakech and Fès, is, thanks to the 1942 film of the same name, inextricably associated with the Western definition of Morocco (although not a single scene of the film was even filmed in the country!).