El Bahia Palace
Monument: El Bahia palace
District: Marrakesh
Location: part of the Medina of Marrakesh
Transport: 6 min walk via riad Zitoun El jdid street from Jamaa El Fna
Marrakech is a great and rich city in Morocco because of its traditions and monuments. El Bahia Palace for example is one of the monuments enlisted as a more than a usual landmark, its history began when the Alawids regne Morocco, the grand vizier Si Moussa who was the leader of the government’s affaire ordered to build the palace in the 1800 s, and a few years later the palace was developed by the son of Si Moussa Abou Ahmed from 1894 to 1900, the reason why Abou Ahmed decided to expand the palace of El Bahia it’s because of he was married four wives and he wants their life in expanding accommodate.
The meaning of the name of El Bahia is “Shining” in Arabic, El Bahia Palace is located in the middle of Marrakesh medina accuretly in the southeastern part of the Medina the palace been acreage has eight hectares.
The steps of construction of the palace El Bahia are as below, the first build was the grand riad called courtyard of honor its surface area is between 50 and 30 meters decorated with marble surrounded by 80 rooms, then the small riad positioned in the center of the square-shaped garden full of a variety of plants, the small courtyard with a simple design its walls painted with white color, the fountain in the middle surrounded by four rooms for the four wives of Abou Ahmad, the large garden, and in the end, he’s wives apartments. El Bahia Palace was an Islamic architecture by used zellige, Marble, the beautiful motif decoration with Plasterers.
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