Moulay al-Yazid Mosque (Kasbah Mosque)

This guide to the Moulay al-Yazid Mosque in Marrakesh's Kasbah opens with a gunpowder explosion in the late 1500s that tore into a mosque already four centuries old. You'll hear how it was built as the spiritual heart of Yaqub al-Mansur's Almohad kasbah in the 1180s, and how its minaret belongs to the same generation as the Koutoubia, the Hassan Tower, and Seville's Giralda. Look up at the pointed arches, once dressed in colored tile and crowned with copper.