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- What kind of interest

- could these military areas represent?

- The place was certainly a highly symbolic site,

- for the sultans’ authority back then.

- In the middle of this necropolis,

- a few wall faces of the Zaouia still stand.

- This religious building

- was at the same time a mosque, a Koranic school,

- a shelter for pilgrims and students.

- According to some authors,

- this Zaouia was even more luxurious than the Medersas in Fes,

- which building codes were identical.

- The legend says that Muhammad himself prayed in its oratory.

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- The Mauritanian era, here in the Chellah area,

- is a major era as well

- because here stand the most ancient town plannings,

- compared to Rabat and Salé.

- So here, in the Chellah, the marks of life on a large scale stand,

- from which we are mainly acquainted with a series of temples,

- a hydraulic building, two wells, and other remains

- that are scattered remains

- but that are important because,

- according to the distance between all the structures,

- we know that this was a major urban area

- that had moreover many trade and exchange relationships

- with the rest of the Mediterranean area.

- We could thus obtain,

- according to the archaeological excavations that were done on this site,

- an major series of remains that show that this town of Salé,

- that besides minted coins in the 1st century BC,

- had exchange and trade relationships

- with Italy, with Spain,

- and especially with Southern Spain,

- along with other towns in this Western Mauritania

- that was thus this Ancient Morocco before the Roman Empire annexed it.

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- Built on the remains of the ancient Roman city Salé Colonia,

- this necropolis named by guides:

- “most romantic site on Morocco”,

- has not always aroused passion as it does nowadays.

- At a distance from the town,

- or rather beyond the surrounding wall Almohade

- located along the swamp of the Bouregreg,

- the remains of this Merinid necropolis of the 13th century

- were abandoned like Abou Al-Hassan.

- This building, destroyed by the 1755 earthquake,

- stripped of its noblest materials by thieves,

- stood then in a state of ruins during several hundreds of years.

- The site is now listed and protected by Moroccan authorities

- that have grasped the historical interest that has no equivalent.

- Surrounded by invading urbanization,

- it is however located at a distance from modern buildings

- that do not impair it.

- During the Roman Age, Salé became an administration

- that belongs to the Roman province of Tingitan Mauritania,

- Ancient Morocco under Roman rule.