Camel shadows across a velvety desert. The majestic stratified orange Kasbah of Aït Benhaddou. The specific smell of a tannery in a corner of the souk in Fez. Morocco is bright, fragrant and a world away from any illusions its proximity with Europe might create. Its northern coastline faces onto the cool rush of the Atlantic, encircling its landward limits are borders with Algeria to the east, and with the Western Sahara to the South. Morocco spreads inland from endless beaches to the snow-tipped Atlas Mountains in its centre to graze the burning Saharan sands in its south east areas. Morocco has an estimated population of over 36 million people, many of whom live in its largest city, Casablanca.
The capital of this evocative country, Rabat holds a relatively small proportion of its population, in fact just over 650,000. Situated on the northern coastline, Rabat is traditio
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