The city of Rabat, an imperial city classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage site, wants to build a cultural image, writes the weekly "Jeune Afrique" in its latest issue. In an article titled "The capital of Morocco dreams of being an international city of culture and knowledge", the magazine indicates that Rabat already has many cultural assets such as the great National Library, the Mohammed V Theatre, the Bab Rouah exhibition hall, not to mention Mawazine, the Festival with 2.6 million spectators. The publication notes that this cultural dynamic proceeds from the will of HM King Mohammed VI, who wants to make Rabat an international cultural capital, like Paris, Rome, or London. It recalls, to this effect, that a five-year plan of 9.42 billion DH was designed to finance the "Rabat City of Light" project. "One must understand light in the sense of knowledge, radiance, and discovery," explains the director general of the Moroccan National Tourism Office (ONMT) Abderrafie Zouiten, quoted by the weekly, stressing that Morocco holds to its specificities, which it wishes to highlight while combining cultural growth and tourism development. "Jeune Afrique" indicates, furthermore, that the cultural consecration of Rabat is the fruit of a transformation "regulated like clockwork", observing that the capital of the Kingdom has been managed in a very strict manner, which has made it possible to successfully carry out urban mobility projects, such as the tramway or the great Hassan II bridge. Detailing the city's five-year plan, the magazine notes that the latter provides for the construction of a large theatre with 2,000 seats, a museum of modern and contemporary arts, which will open its doors in September, as well as a museum of archaeology and earth sciences, which will house the oldest dinosaur ever discovered. "All these projects will be accompanied by a training policy and by the signing of conventions with international museums," assures Mr. Zouiten.