Morocco Imperial Cities Marrakech, Fez, Meknes, Rabat, the imperial cities of Morocco are linked to the great dynasties which built the country. Three thousand years of an exciting history rich in twists and turns! At the crossroads of the East, Europe, and Africa. It is by visiting the imperial cities of Morocco that the history of the many Berber, Arab and Christian dynasties that have succeeded one another is told to us, alternating times of anarchy and of peace. Two seas, a mountain barrier, and the vastness of the Sahara isolate this land that was once called the extreme Maghreb. But it is, at the same time, the country closest to Europe, the easiest to access. The country that was, over a three-thousand-year history, the most permeable to currents from the north and south, from Guinea or Andalusia. The Phoenicians and the Carthaginians 1000 BC It is a thousand years BC. J.C. that square sailboats from Phenicia landed on the Atlantic coast of Africa to found the first ...