Dar el Bacha
Thami el Glaoui's palace - دار الباشا
Dar el Bacha, also known as Dar el Glaoui, was the palace of France’s man in Marrakesh, the warlord Thami el Glaoui, who took the Turkish title pasha (basha in Arabic, which doesn’t have a “p”). Part of it is now open to the public as a museum.
Glaoui commissioned the palace in the 1920s, inspired by places like the Bahia Palace and Dar Si Said. He spared no expense and the craftsmanship is superb, with all the usual carved stucco and cedar, fine zellij tilework, and beautiful patios shaded by fruit trees. Notice how the zellij has been modernized compared with that in the Ben Youssef Medersa or the Bahia Palace (using yellow tiles, for example, which was a new departure).