{"id":235,"date":"2012-02-15T13:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T13:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/?p=235"},"modified":"2013-02-06T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T09:11:05","slug":"koutoubia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/attractions\/koutoubia\/","title":{"rendered":"The amazing Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marrakech most well known monument and without a doubt the city landmark, the Koutoubia mosque is a minaret that stands up in Marrakech skyline, and that can actually be seen as far as 30km away on a clear sunny day.<\/p>\n<p>The minaret of Koutoubia Mosque was completed back in the 12th century under the reign of the Almohad Caliph Yaqub al-Mansur. The building is very beautiful and is surrounded by a gorgeous garden and the ancient grounds of the old mosque were still the base of the pillars still remain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video about the history surrounding Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IFOmZfTqw50\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A great photo from Marrakech can be made from Jemaa el-Fnaa square facing the Koutoubia. Great view of this amazing structure. This is a fine example of Moroccan architecture from the Almohad times.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s s legend around the top golden spheres on top of the minaret, where supposedly the wife of Yaqub el-Mansur gave all her golden jewelry to melt down to build the fourth globe, as compensation for her failure to keep the fast for one day during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video from David been here about Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EnpPzelq_OY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marrakech most well known monument and without a doubt the city landmark, the Koutoubia mosque is &#8230; <a title=\"The amazing Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/attractions\/koutoubia\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The amazing Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,35,68,70],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attractions","tag-almohad","tag-architecture","tag-islam","tag-monuments","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joaoleitao.com\/holidays-marrakech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}