Morocco · 15th century
The Kasbah of Chefchaouen is a historic kasbah in the Moroccan city of Chefchaouen, whose construction dates back to the 15th century AD; it is a landmark and tourist centre of Chefchaouen. The city of Chefchaouen lies 110 km from the city of Tangier and 60 km from the city of Tétouan.
This kasbah was the first step towards the founding of the city of Chefchaouen, and Ali ibn Rashid took it as his seat, besides its being a military fortress to repel the attacks of the Portuguese. The Kasbah of Chefchaouen is counted among the most beautiful tourist sites, visited every year by a large number of foreign and Moroccan tourists, as a site of Morocco's ancient cultural heritage.
Architecturally, the Kasbah of Chefchaouen is surrounded by a wall with ten towers, built in the Andalusian style, and an inner courtyard consisting of a large garden with two basins; the Ethnographic Museum is in the north-western part of the kasbah, and it is designed in the manner of traditional Moroccan houses, with an open inner courtyard in the middle of which is a fountain surrounded by the rooms of the ground floor.
Machine-translated from “قصبة شفشاون” on the Arabic Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kasbah of Chefchaouen ranks #6,671 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #29 of the 41 mapped in Morocco. Founded c. 1450, it is older than 46% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 556 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. See how Morocco compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →