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The Bahia Palace

Marrakesh's brilliant palace - قصر الباهية

Bahia Palace ceiling

The Bahia Palace, or Dar al-Bahia, meaning "Palace of Brilliance", is a 150-room nineteenth-century construction with decor that really is quite brilliant.

Bahia Palace

The palace was originally built in the 1860s for the sultan's grand vizier Si Moussa, but it was massively expanded by his son, Ba Ahmed, who effectively ruled Morocco as regent (1894–1900), and housed his various wives and concubines here, Under colonial rule it was the home of France's resident-general, Hubert Lyautey.

Bahia palace stucco

Because it was built piecemeal and added to whenever Ba Ahmed felt like it, the palace has a higgledy-piggledy layout, and only parts of it are open to the public, but the workmanship is superlative, and the zellij tilework, stucco plaster, carved cedar wood, painted ceilings, Iraqi stained glass and elegant courtyards are a wonder to behold.

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1669–1912: Alaouite

Art

Riad Zitoun el Jedid

Marrakesh In-a-Day

The city's most important sights if you have just one day

Text © Daniel Jacobs

Images by Anthony Tong Lee, Chris, Daniel Jacobs, David Jones, Guled Ahmed, János Korom Dr. >11 Million views, Karel Schoonejans, Pavlina Jane, *SHERWOOD*, Vassia Atanassova - Spiritia