With a white chalky stone, the guide was kneeling on the kasbah roof, trying to draw the El Glaoui family tree on the dun-coloured surface. |
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Twenty minutes later, the great kasbah appeared, set in a patchwork of irrigated fields and surrounded by the clustered houses of the village. |
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Go in search of feathered beasties in the deserts, mountains and oases of southern Morocco's kasbah country. |
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Many old inhabitants of the kasbah still remember watching their neighbours dragged out and beheaded on the whim of a French general. |
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After checking in I donned a hooded, robe-like jellaba and headed up into the valley on a trail behind the ancient kasbah. |
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A common feature of the Atlas landscape is the kasbah, a traditional fortified settlement that evokes images of Berber tribes and Foreign Legionnaires. |
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Destroyed by the earthquake of 1960, the kasbah no longer has its crenellated ramparts. |
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It seems that when Marty rocks the kasbah, there are two kings living in Morocco. |
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An intact and picturesque medina with its souks overflowing with local craft productions and the towering fortifications of its kasbah. |
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This type of motor vehicle is perfectly suited to the kasbah route and is able, when necessary, to leave the road to discover less accessible beauties. |
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We stopped at Timinagout kasbah, my girlfriend delighting in the fact that some scenes from Babel were filmed there, and she was standing where Brad Pitt had been just a few months before. |
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Take a wrong turn and you may end up at an impasse, but with the gate to the medina at the East end, the kasbah due west, and a vague sense that it's uphill from one to the other, it's not difficult to get back on track. |
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This funerary building was an annex to the mosque of the kasbah. |
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In the northeast corner of the kasbah, the old palatial area, whose current form is the result of later building work, is now home to a museum and a centre of Andalusian studies. |
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Its winding streets, medieval houses painted with blue-tinted whitewash and its fine old kasbah make it a favourite destination for artists, and indeed for all those who simply want to sit back and dream the day away. |
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Riad Kasbah Le Mirage is the elite version of the Moroccan courtyard house. |
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The Boulaouane Kasbah and Safi will round off this cultural discovery with their unspoilt heritage: pottery, fantasia, falconry and much more? |
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Available in a blend of faux suede and cotton candy stripe reflecting the sandy beaches of the Moroccan Kasbah. |
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My sister has a lovely riad in the medina, and we've renovated an old medieval castle not far away in the Atlas Mountains, called the Kasbah Tamadot. |
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You will spend an unforgettable stay in this unspeakable delights unspeakably delightful Kasbah where dream and reality intertwine, night and day. |
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The ancient Grande Mosque and Kasbah fortress line the main plaza square. |
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At the center of the medina, it is bounded by the suq neighborhood to the north, the Kasbah to the east and the Kutubiyya mosque to the southwest. |
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The minute we pushed open the large wooden door, we realised what a special place the Kasbah is. |
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The mihrab is surmounted by a dome with fluted squinches. At the northeast corner rises an elegant minaret which is reminiscent of that of the Great Mosque at Tlemcen and the Kasbah Mosque in Tunis. |
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London-based duo Tough Love are also heading down to the Kasbah for the Christmas party after rising through the ranks of the house scene over the last three years. |
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Francois Doumen is considering the Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham on Juanuary 24, as a potential starting point for his top-class stayer Kasbah Bliss. |
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