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Volubilis is definitely an ancient Roman city where you should be
careful about keeping a good eye with the ground. There are many
mosaics here and an impressive quantity of them are in excellent
conditions. Practically all that are of much value are fenced in, but
not more than what allows them to be easily looked at.
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These remarkable mosaics, which are complex and amusing,
are also uniform in this direction which were created of only one
materials. They composite, consist of several types of stones, glass
tesserae and parts of pottery, posed on a kind of cement and mortar. |
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Volubilis was a Roman payment built on what was probably a carthaginoise
city, dating from the 3rd century BEFORE JESUS Volubilis CHRIST was a
central administrative city for the present part of Roman Africa,
responsible for the grain producing in this fertile area, and exports
towards Rome. Volubilis also managed contacts with the tribes of Berber
which the Novels never managed to remove, but until which only came to
cooperate with the Novels for the mutual advantages. |
| Currently a maroco-britanic academic team seriously
activates itself to protect the site and to preserve her Islamic
inheritance. It is envisaged over five years and should have a
considerable impact on the safeguarding of the Roman ruins. It will also
make it possible to operate a new opening on the past of the city. But
most urgent is to take care of the conservation of the remarkable
mosaics. |
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With the difference of so much of other Roman cities,
Volubilis was not abandoned after the Novels lost their balance in the
present part of Africa at the 3rd century. Even the Latin language
survived during centuries, and like not replaced before the Arabs
conquered North Africa towards the end of the 7th century. People
continued to live in Volubilis for more than 1.000 years more. |
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Sanctuary of the Roman
and Islamic vestiges
Strewn on a hill with the panoramic sights of extended
plains, Volubilis is the most significant archeological site of Morocco,
of share its historical interest exceptional but also from the number of
tourists whom it accomodates each year. |
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