Volubilis

The life of the place had long since moved a few kilometres up the mountain slope to Moulay Idriss, where Idris lay buried. Under the Marinids his memory revived: in 1318 his remains were said to have been found there, to the excitement of the whole district, and an annual festival in his honour began to take shape each August. The sharifian sultans who followed made still more of him, and between 1719 and 1721 Moulay Ismail pulled down the old mausoleum and rebuilt it on a grander scale. The Roman ruins fared worse. They stood largely intact until the earthquake of 1755 shook them down, and afterwards Moroccan rulers carted off their stone to build Meknes.