The Colors of Rabat

Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj wandered Rabat, Morocco making photographs of the city’s colourful buildings and textured street life. UNESCO designated Rabat a World Heritage Site two years ago and media and tour operators have labeled it a “must-see destination” yet it seems the tourism industry has yet to experience the impact. While visitors are making their ways through better-known sites sufh as Marrakesh and Fez, the old part of Rabat - with its beautiful Medina and Kasbah of the Udayas - remains an almost unspoiled oasis of calm. Smaller and more compact, its labyrinths of streets, passages and dead ends are a treasure trove of shapes and colours, of moments begging to be caught by the photographer’s lens.