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The Bahia Palace (Arabic: قصر الباهية) is a mid to late 19th-century palace in Marrakesh, Morocco. The palace was first begun by Si Musa, grand vizier under the Alawi sultan Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman, in the 1860s. It was expanded by his son Si Ba Ahmed ibn Musa, grand vizier of Sultan Moulay Abdelaziz, between 1894 and 1900. Today ...
The structure of the Palace of the Commercial Association of Bahia was built on the ruins of the São Fernando Fort, which was demolished between 1814 and 1816. [ 7 ] [ 4 ] The construction was financed by the former governor of Bahia, Dom Marcos de Noronha e Brito , VIII Count of Arcos, and architecturally designed by Portuguese architect ...
The Dar Si Said Museum is to the north of the Bahia Palace. It was the mansion of Si Said, brother to Grand Vizier Ba Ahmad, and was constructed in the same era as Ahmad's own Bahia Palace. [181] [182] In the 1930s, during the French Protectorate period, it was converted into a museum of Moroccan art and woodcraft. [183]
After the end of the Saadian dynasty in the 17th century the palace fell into neglect and was then systematically looted by the Alaouite sultan Moulay Isma'il for its valuable materials like marble. [58] The preserved ruins of the palace are open today as a tourist attraction. The Marrakech Folklore Festival is held in the spring at the palace ...
To the north of the palace are the remains of the monumental El Badi Palace, which are now a historic site accessible to tourists. [ 19 ] In the northwest area of the kasbah is the citadel's original congregational mosque, the Kasbah Mosque ( a.k.a. the Mansuriyya Mosque and the Mosque of Moulay al-Yazid), which is active today and accessible ...
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A riad garden in the Bahia Palace of Marrakesh, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A riad or riyad (Arabic: رياض, romanized: riyāḍ) is a type of garden courtyard historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus.
The palace is an example of late 19th-century and early 20th-century Moroccan architecture, one of many such palaces built by wealthy elites during this period. [3] The palace consists of a large central courtyard, which was originally an open riad garden planted with trees, [ 3 ] but today is fully paved and roofed over.