During our recent visit to Morocco my husband and I saw elegant palaces, huge mosques and eye-popping markets in the cities of Rabat, Fes, Marrakech and Casablanca — each of which had its own distinctive character. But often it was the small events between the major ones — the roadside stops, the bits of information we learned and the people we met — that we found most memorable.
En route to Fes, for example, we made a stop at Volubilis, the largest of the Romans’ 17 colonies established in the country between the first century B.C. and the second century. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, its excavated columns, archways and colorful mosaic floors are the best-preserved of all the sites in Morocco and present a vivid picture of what life might have been like 2,000 years ago….