Antique & Vintage Postcards

Color postcard of the Tour Hassan (Hassan Tower) and the ruins of the Hassan Mosque in Rabat, Morocco — an arrestingly beautiful scene of the unfinished 12th-century minaret surrounded by hundreds of broken columns at sunset, the warm terra-cotta stone glowing against a rose and blue sky. The Hassan Tower, begun by Sultan Yacoub al-Mansour around 1195 and left incomplete at 44 meters when he died in 1199, was intended to be the world's tallest minaret. The surrounding field of columns is all that remains of what would have been the world's largest mosque. Published by Lévy & Neurdein Réunis, Paris, card no. 72.