The Andalusian Gardens of Rabat

The Andalusian Gardens are considering as one of the most beautiful places that you should visit in visit Rabat, the Moroccan capital, where you can see a part of the Andalusian heritage that was saved perfectly by Moroccans, who adopted it and transformed it into an original component of their ancient civilization.

The Andalusian Gardens are quite special, and you can see what was they were like before centuries from now because barely, nothing has changed, the architecture of these gardens is the same, just like the time stopped in the 15th or 16th century. So all that you have to do, is discovering the place closely and let your imagination lead you!

The Andalusian Gardens in Rabat tell us how life was in the Andalusian society, especially among the elite such as the Musicians, the poets, the literate people, the merchantmen…, before the 15th century, and so the expulsion of the Andalusians from their motherland. 

However, the Andalusians brought with them their culture and style of life to the neighboring country, Morocco.

We have also to mention that the Andalusian Gardens in Rabat actually takes the same architecture as the Gardens in the historical palaces of the Nasrid dynasty in Granada in Spain, in fact; they were the last Moorish Islamic dynasty which ruled the emirate of Granada before 1492 and the collapse of the Moorish Islamic presence in the Iberian peninsula and West Europe.

If you want to visit the Andalusian Gardens of Rabat, you should know that it's situated in the historic Kasbah of the Udayas near the river of Bou Regerg. The Gardens hosted many famous personalities.