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The ruins of Shera are the ruins of the ancient city of Shera and the royal tombs of Morocco's Merinid Dynasty. In 1980, it was listed as a national key protected cultural relic in Morocco. The ancient city of Shera was originally an important port city in North Africa in the era of Phoenicia, Carthage and the ancient Roman Empire. In the twelfth century AD, "Black Sultan" Abu Hassan, the monarch of the Merinid Dynasty, established the capital of Rabat, and built a city wall to delineate the imperial mausoleum on the basis of the ruins of the ancient city. According to Kaoqi's beloved concubine and himself, they were buried in the mausoleum after their death. Shera was razed to rubble in 1775 by a famous earthquake with Lisbon as its epicentre, and today it is home to dense trees and a large number of storks. On the ruins of Shera, the terraced gardens, the Arc de Triomphe, the Senate, the forum, the courthouse, public baths and other architectural complexes in the ancient Roman period are vaguely visible. kept the original appearance. Standing in the terrace garden, you can have a bird's-eye view of the Bregreg River Valley and the ruins of the ancient city of Shela. The main gate of the outer city wall records the construction of the mausoleum in ancient Arabic. From the tombstone of the princess, people can read Wang Yu's life and release. The pond is located in a corner of the ancient ruins, and there is a silver eel that is regarded as a god. Visitors can throw coins into the pond to beg for blessings.