It has also put at risk buildings and monuments of major historic importance, among them the minaret of the Kutubiyya mosque, a 12th-century structure that is an icon of the city.

Moroccan Earthquake Damages Historic Old City of Marrakesh, a Tourist Magnet. By. Anastasiia Malenko. ... one of the medina's most recognizable landmarks with its 77-meter-tall minaret.

The minaret of a mosque stands behind damaged or destroyed houses following an earthquake in Moulay Brahim, Al-Haouz province, on Sept. 9, 2023, in Morocco. FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images ...

Opened in 1993, this mosque with a green minaret is one of the largest in Africa. Outside prayer hours, non-Muslims are able to admire the Moroccan craftsmanship on display.

Asia Palomba/Travel + Leisure Moroccan mint tea and traditional Moroccan pastries from Le Terrasse des Épices; The 12th-century Koutoubia Mosque Moorish minaret.

It all creates a distinct Moroccan taste. But Mohammad isn’t even Moroccan. Abdul Mani, a Moroccan, founded the restaurant in 2015, while Mohammad’s son, Hamza, worked as a waiter.

For nearly 900 years, Tinmel was central to a distinctly Moroccan Islamic tradition, ... But the mosque’s most unusual element was its minaret, which wrapped around the exterior of the mihrab.

In the sitting room of Umberto Pasti and Stephan Janson’s home in Tangier, Morocco, a fragment from an early 19th-century kilim from Central Anatolia hangs below a wooden shelf from Fez.

Returning to her roots, she opened her first Moroccan restaurant, Nur, in 2017. Two years later the Fez establishment had earned a spot on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.

Moroccan earthquake claims more than 2,000 lives on ... Video footage showed rubble covering cars in a street in the old town of Marrakech where buildings and the minaret from a mosque had ...

Parts of the city walls cracked in the earthquake, and an 18th-century mosque in the main square lost its minaret. The historic 12th-century site of Tinmal , not far from Marrakech and nestled in ...