Imperial Cities Tour From Rabat by Train

Day 1 Rabat arrival

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   Rabat

   45 min

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   Arrival Rabat airport, welcoming by your driver and transfer to your hotel, time at your disposition, night in Rabat

Day 2 Rabat - Meknes

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   Morocco

   4 hours

   we visit Rabat, a Unesco World Heritage, the first of the Imperial Cities where we see the city’s Medina and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V. Guarded by two mounted, traditionally robed spear-carrying ‘lancers’, it is built in traditional style, the grandfather and father of the present king are buried here and its contemporary mosaics and spiral designs make a fascinating comparison with the adjacent Hassan Mosque, a wonder of the medieval Moorish world with its great minaret left unfinished when its founder died in 1199. If completed it would have been the largest building in the world at that time. The harbour is full of traditional fishing boats and on the opposite river bank is Sale, Rabat’s twin city where Robinson Crusoe was enslaved before his final escape to Brazil. Route for Meknes, arrival and accommodation in Riad hotel

Day 3 Meknes - Volubilis - Fez

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   Meknes

   5 hours

   "it is a place made for painters ... the beautiful abounds ... the beautiful runs the streets, I am stunned by all that I saw, I am at this moment like a man who dreams. "
   Eugene de Lacroix said of Meknes
   Breakfast, guided visit of MEKNEs, a Unesco World Heritage, the 16th century capital whose ruler, Moulay Ismail, modeled himself on France’s ‘Sun King’, Louis XIV. , he left one of the most beautiful cities in Moorish-Arabic style.
   Sightseeing includes Bab El Mansour, considered as the finest gateway in Morocco.
   Volubilis, the westernmost outpost of the Roman Empire. Wonderfully isolated, set among gorgeous rolling hills and , it is a haunting sight, silent and almost ghost-like. Yur guid will ensure you appreciate Volubilis’s historic importance and its stunning mosaics:
   The Roman ruins of Volubilis, a UNESCO World Heritage site, stretched out over 40 hectares, are the most well preserved ruins in Morocco. Route for Fez, arrival and installation in your hotel or Riad

Day 4 Fez

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   Fez

   5 hours

   After breakfast, the whole day will be devoted to discovering Fez, a Unesco World Heritage and the oldest of the imperial cities, home to the world’s first university dating from the 9th century and one of the most complete medieval cities in existence. Surrounded by huge defensive walls, it seems suspended in a time warp, somewhere between the Middle Ages and the modern. But it’s more than that, it is a living city almost devoid of tourists, where whilst wandering amongst its amazing 3,000 tiny streets.
   ►Medersa Bou Inania: An (Islamic school) founded by Abu Inan Faris that is highly decorated from floor to ceiling. The medersa is one of the few religious places in Morocco that is accessible to non-Islamic tourists.
   ►University of Al-Karaouine: Founded in 859, this university is one of the leading spiritual and educational centers of the Muslim world and is considered the oldest continuously operating institution of higher learning in the world.

Day 5 Fez - Marrakesh

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   Marrakech

   6 hours

   After breakfast, depart for Marrakesh by Highway (6h) or by National road, the middle Atlas mountains and cedar forest (8h)
   Arrival in Marrakesh and installation in your hotel or Riad. Time at your disposal.

Day 6 Marrakesh

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   Marrakech

   4 hours

   After the breakfast, guided visit of Marrakesh, an Unesco world Heritage, once an oasis on the caravan routes to the south, it became a natural centre of commerce and the capital city during medieval times. Surrounded by almost intact medieval walls little has changed and in the central square Jemaa el Fna is one of the world’s greatest spectacles. that is listed by UNESCO, as a Intangible heritage of humanity. Here, especially atmospheric at dusk, street restaurants serve all kinds of delicacies with mouth-watering aromas filling the air, surrounded by what only can be described as a medieval circus.
   Visit the Bahia palace:
   150 rooms to house his four wives and 24 concubines of the vizier Ba Hmad
   Saadiens tombs:
   The Saadian tombs in Marrakech are to be originated in the period of the great sultan Ahmad al-Mansur Saadi (1578-1603). These tombs were discovered in 1917, The mausoleum houses the body of a sixty Saadiens, including Al-Mansour, his followers and his family.

Day 7 Marrakesh - Casablanca - Rabat

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   Rabat

   5 hours

   After breakfast depart for Casablanca, arrival and panoramic tour and visit of Hassan II Mosque (11€ payable in spot) than route for Rabat,
   installation in your hotel. Time at your disposal.

Day 8 Airport Transfer

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   Medina of Rabat

   45 min

   After breakfast, and according to your flight time, airport Transfer