During our recent visit to Morocco, my husband and I saw elegant palaces, huge mosques, and eye-popping markets in the cities of Rabat, Fes, Marrakech, and Casablanca—each of which had its own distinctive character. But often it was the small events between the major ones—the roadside stops, the bits of information we learned, and the people we met—that we found most memorable.
En route to Fes, for example, we made a stop at Volubilis, the largest of the Romans’ 17 colonies established in the country between the first century B.C. and the second century. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, its excavated columns, archways, and colorful mosaic floors are the best-preserved of all the sites in Morocco and present a vivid picture of what life might have been like 2,000 years ago.
