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The City Walls

Bab Nkob and city wall, Marrakech

Marrakesh’s city walls run for some 19km (12 miles) round the Medina.

One of the most popular ways to tour the city wall and its various gates is by calèche. The circuit takes about two hours, and should cost around 350dh, depending on your bargaining skills. You could also do it on foot (around four hours, take water) or by bicycle.

Marrakesh city walls

There is no public access onto the top of the wall.

Facts and stats

Originally built under the Almoravid ruler Ali ibn Yusuf in 1126–7, the walls were expanded under the Almohads when they took over in 1147. The walls were extended north and south in the eighteenth century, and south around the Agdal Gardens in the 1830s.

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Bab Agnaou

The Black people’s gate - باب أكناو

Bab Debbagh

The tanners’ gate - باب الدباغ

Bab el Khemis

Gateway to the Thursday market - باب الخميس

Text © Daniel Jacobs

Images by Antony Stanley, based on Project OSRM map (with additions), Daniel Jacobs, D. Gordon E. Robertson (CC BY-SA 3.0), János Korom Dr. >13 Million views, Lee Kyung-joon, Matt Kieffer, Niels Broekzitter, Peter Corbett, puffin11k