Royal Palace Rabat
The Makhzen — the royal palace complex of Rabat — occupies a vast walled enclosure in the centre of the city. The ceremonial gates are visible from the Avenue Mohammed V. The complex is not open to visitors, but its presence shapes everything around it: the wide ceremonial boulevards, the police cordons, the silence that falls over this part of the city at certain hours.
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