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VOLUBILIS
A stork landing on a column, a donkey walks center two ruins in the distance stand the mountains overlooking the plain Volubilis is ideal for a romantic and bucolic.
Then there is the fascination of discovering a city with typical Roman Forum, Capitol basilica macellum, triumphal arch, spas, residential areas and oil mills which made its wealth. Volubilis must also be considerable, if one considers the number and quality of works of art. If all the sculptures are an archaeological museum in Rabat, alone preserved mosaics situ of the Roman city are a wonderful outdoor museum.
Road: from Meknes, take the P6 in the direction of Sidi Kacem, 11 km after turn right.
Visit: Pay from 8 am until one hour before sunset, small restaurant on site and very nice hotel next to it. Beware of sunstroke. Allow 2 hours to visit the site quietly.
Volubilis in history.
A capital of Juba II? The era of the founding of Volubilis is still uncertain. Some historians, such as Jerome Carcopino, see it as one of the capitals of Juba II (25 BC), king of Mauretania. Excavations have demonstrated the existence of a pre-Roman city located on a spur crossed. Volubilis was from the beginning of the Roman conquest (40-45 AD), one of the leading cities of Tingitane. It was the residence of Roman procurators who ruled the province and reported directly to the emperor.
Rise and Fall. Volubilis was developed especially II and III. under Antoninus and Severus, she was surrounded by a wall, enlarged thereafter. Convenient adorned the monuments. Macrinus had built the Capitol, Caracalla, a triumphal arch and Gordian rebuilt the palace of the procurator. Volubilis fell into decline towards the end of III after the Emperor Probus (276-282). The site, however, was not immediately abandoned. Berbers can be Christianized descendants of the Baquates occupied until the end of VIII. At that time, the Roman city is divided into two eastern part serves as cemeteries and career for the western part. In 779, convolvulus greeted Idriss I. Known then as the Oulili (or Oualili), the city remains inhabited rather late.
Recent studies have shown that Volubilis was occupied until the High Middle Ages. Idrisids currencies, ceramics characteristics XI - XIV and a necropolis of time Islamic attest that long survival of the ancient site.
excavations. Briefly described in 1721 by Englishman John Windus, before the earthquake of 1755 (the one that devastated Lisbon) will ruin himself yet the monuments still standing. Volubilis was identified in 1874 by Tissot, Minister Plenipotentiary in Morocco. The first excavations were undertaken by M y La Martiniere in 1887-1892, taken from 1915 to 1941 by L. Chatelain. It has been continued since then
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A stork landing on a column, a donkey walks center two ruins in the distance stand the mountains overlooking the plain Volubilis is ideal for a romantic and bucolic.
Then there is the fascination of discovering a city with typical Roman Forum, Capitol basilica macellum, triumphal arch, spas, residential areas and oil mills which made its wealth. Volubilis must also be considerable, if one considers the number and quality of works of art. If all the sculptures are an archaeological museum in Rabat, alone preserved mosaics situ of the Roman city are a wonderful outdoor museum.
Road: from Meknes, take the P6 in the direction of Sidi Kacem, 11 km after turn right.
Visit: Pay from 8 am until one hour before sunset, small restaurant on site and very nice hotel next to it. Beware of sunstroke. Allow 2 hours to visit the site quietly.
Volubilis in history.
A capital of Juba II? The era of the founding of Volubilis is still uncertain. Some historians, such as Jerome Carcopino, see it as one of the capitals of Juba II (25 BC), king of Mauretania. Excavations have demonstrated the existence of a pre-Roman city located on a spur crossed. Volubilis was from the beginning of the Roman conquest (40-45 AD), one of the leading cities of Tingitane. It was the residence of Roman procurators who ruled the province and reported directly to the emperor.
Rise and Fall. Volubilis was developed especially II and III. under Antoninus and Severus, she was surrounded by a wall, enlarged thereafter. Convenient adorned the monuments. Macrinus had built the Capitol, Caracalla, a triumphal arch and Gordian rebuilt the palace of the procurator. Volubilis fell into decline towards the end of III after the Emperor Probus (276-282). The site, however, was not immediately abandoned. Berbers can be Christianized descendants of the Baquates occupied until the end of VIII. At that time, the Roman city is divided into two eastern part serves as cemeteries and career for the western part. In 779, convolvulus greeted Idriss I. Known then as the Oulili (or Oualili), the city remains inhabited rather late.
Recent studies have shown that Volubilis was occupied until the High Middle Ages. Idrisids currencies, ceramics characteristics XI - XIV and a necropolis of time Islamic attest that long survival of the ancient site.
excavations. Briefly described in 1721 by Englishman John Windus, before the earthquake of 1755 (the one that devastated Lisbon) will ruin himself yet the monuments still standing. Volubilis was identified in 1874 by Tissot, Minister Plenipotentiary in Morocco. The first excavations were undertaken by M y La Martiniere in 1887-1892, taken from 1915 to 1941 by L. Chatelain. It has been continued since then
