Volubilis

Basilica, Volubilis, pictured on December 25, 2009, Morocco. Steps run along the facade of this impressive civic centre whose columns are topped with Corinthian capitals. Around the city fertile plains providing agriculural produce stretch towards the mountains. Volubilis, founded in the 3rd century BC was an important city in the Western part of Roman North Africa. The Romans abandoned it in the 3rd century AD. Excavations were started by the French in 1915, and it became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Civic Corinthian Cut-stone Masonry Volubilis

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