Hassan Tower

Hassan Tower is a famous tower in Rabat, capital of Morocco, constituting the minaret of a mosque in the twelfth century unfinished. It is the most famous landmark of the city and one of Morocco's most famous.
Sultan Yacoub El Mansour of the Almohad dynasty planned to build the largest mosque in the Muslim world after the Samarra in Iraq.

Much of this gigantic work is unknown to begin with the name of which is unknown origin: place name, name of a tribe or name of the contractor? Some historians of the eighteenth century, including Spanish, the architect is a man named Gever, died in 1197 from Seville to the year which would have designed identically the Giralda in Seville, Marrakech Koutoubia minaret and the mosque Hassan Rabat . This hypothesis has never been confirmed. The only historical certainty, it is the date of commencement of work, and in 1196 the name of the sponsor.

The work was abandoned after the death of Sultan Yacoub El Mansour, in 1199 the minaret was to peak at more than 60 m, but only reached 44.3 m. The Hassan mosque, Hassan was therefore improperly called Hassan Tower.

The colonnade of the building was damaged in the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755.

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