3D print the Hassan Tower
A free, printable model of Hassan Tower, a square tower with patterned relief panels and a brick-like base, standing alone among paths, green ground and a road, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Hassan Tower
Hassan Tower, called Tour Hassan in French, is the minaret of a mosque that was never completed, in Rabat, Morocco. Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the Almohad Caliphate's third caliph, commissioned it late in the 12th century. It was planned as the world's largest minaret, and if finished the mosque would have ranked first in size among those of the western Muslim world. Work stopped when al-Mansur died in 1199, and the minaret stands 44 meters tall as it was left.
The mosque sits above the Bu Regreg river, on its high south bank. Construction began in 1191, though 1195 is sometimes cited. Measuring 183 meters by 139 meters, or 600 by 456 ft, it was very large for its time. Its walls were lime concrete on a rubble stone base, and the hypostyle interior was laid out in 21 aisles divided by rows of columns. Just 348 columns and the first parts of several walls were ever built.
The tower is sandstone that has turned a red ochre color over the centuries, with a square plan measuring 16 meters per side. Judging by the proportions of other Almohad minarets, it was meant to stand a minimum of 64 m (210 ft) tall, and possibly 80 m (260 ft) counting its second tier and finial. Ramps replace stairs, which would have let the muezzin ride a horse to the top. Panels of sebka patterning, engaged columns and carved capitals decorate the exterior.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 12 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 15 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 19 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Fine relief on every face
- The four faces carry shallow patterned panels and a brick-like base. Print friendly adapts these fine details to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best on a larger print with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- A plain square shaft
- The tower is a straight square shaft with a flat top, so it has no thin spire to protect. A bigger print shows more of the relief.
- One piece with the ground
- The Hassan Tower is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Hassan Tower takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Hassan Tower is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Hassan Tower STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Hassan Tower grows with the print: about 12 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
