Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Louis Mercier, the French Vice-Consul, describes the agreeable walk down the coast from Rabat’s Bab el-Alou to the walls of the Sultan’s seaside palace, al-Qubaybat (the Little Domes). Opposite the qoubba of Sidi El-Khattib there is a forking of the ways: the metalled road which comes up … More Penelope in a Pickelhaube: The Rottembourg Bastion at Rabat