Museum of Oudayas
Rabat, Morocco
About
South of Bab Ouadaia, a third gate will lead you into the Palace Museum and Andalusian Gardens. The Palace was built in the seventeenth-century by Moulay Ismail, the first Almohad sultan to unify the country. Today, it showcases interesting exhibits of Moroccan art and culture. A vast central patio gives access to private quarters and reception rooms containing the exhibits. There is a hall containing oriental rugs made in Rabat, an exhibition hall for musical instruments and a salon reserved for customs and rituals. Andalusian Gardens, Rabat, Morocco Andalusian Gardens: A beautiful French-constructed garden occupying the old Palace grounds in the Kasbah Oudaia. The old palace grounds are occupied by the beautiful Andalusian Gardens. Although true to Andalusian traditions, with its flowering annuals and beds of shrubs, the gardens were actually constructed by the French in the twentieth-century. The gardens are a delightful shady retreat, with a profusion of daturas, oleanders, orange, lemon and banana trees.
