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   Koutoubia Mosque

   The largest mosque in Marrakesh, built by the Almohads between 1147 and 1195. Its minaret of seventy-seven metres set the pattern for the Giralda in Seville and the Hassan Tower in Rabat, and no building in the old city may stand higher.

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   Jemaa el-Fnaa

   The square at the mouth of the Marrakesh souks, and one of the first things UNESCO listed as intangible heritage, in 2001. Snake charmers, monkey handlers and storytellers work it by day; at dusk a hundred food stalls are wheeled in and the whole thing turns into an open-air canteen.

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   Majorelle Garden

   A garden of one hectare planted from 1923 by the French painter Jacques Majorelle, who mixed the cobalt blue that now carries his name and painted the villa with it. Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé bought and restored it in 1980.

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   Menara gardens

   An Almohad garden of about 1157 outside the walls, built around a stone reservoir the size of a small lake, fed by an underground channel from the Atlas. The pavilion beside it is nineteenth century, and the reflection of the mountains in the water is the standard postcard.

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   El Badi Palace

   Ruined palace in Marrakesh built from 1578 by the Saadian sultan Ahmad al-Mansur with Italian marble paid for in Songhai gold. The Alaouites stripped it bare in 1696.

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   Bab Agnaou

   The ceremonial gate into the royal kasbah, finished about 1190 for the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur and cut in blue-grey stone from the Guéliz quarries rather than the usual mud brick. Concentric bands of floral carving frame the arch; it was the gate reserved for the sultan.

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   Bahia Palace

   A hundred and fifty rooms of courts, painted cedar ceilings and zellij, built in the 1860s and enlarged to 1900 by Ba Ahmed, the grand vizier who effectively ruled Morocco. His household was looted within days of his death and the rooms have stayed bare, which is oddly to their advantage.

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   Almoravid Koubba

   A small domed structure of the early twelfth century, and the only Almoravid building left standing in Marrakesh. Its interior of interlacing ribs, shell niches and scalloped arches established the vocabulary that Moroccan architecture used for the next eight hundred years; it was rediscovered under later buildings in 1948.

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   Saadian Tombs

   A royal burial ground of the sixteenth-century Saadian sultans, walled up by their successor and forgotten until 1917. The Hall of Twelve Columns, in Italian marble and gilded cedar, holds the tomb of Ahmad al-Mansur.

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    Agdal Gardens

    Four hundred hectares of walled orchard south of the royal palace, laid out in the twelfth century and watered by khettara, underground channels tapping the water table towards the Atlas. Olive, orange and pomegranate are still harvested; it remains royal property and opens only on some days.

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   Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh

   A museum to the designer, opened in 2017 beside the garden he restored, its walls laid in brick and terrazzo to read like woven cloth. It shows a rotating selection from five thousand of his garments.

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   Dar el Bacha

   A palace in the medina built in the 1910s for the pasha who ruled Marrakesh under the French, and known as the house of the pasha. It now holds a museum of the city's mixed cultures, and a courtyard café that is hard to get into.

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   Ibn Yusuf Mosque

   A mosque in the medina named after the Almoravid ruler who made Marrakesh a capital, and the city's original Friday mosque. Almost nothing of the Almoravid building survives except the small domed pavilion nearby, the oldest structure in the city.

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   Slat Al Azama Synagogue

   A synagogue in the Mellah, the walled Jewish quarter created in 1558, founded by families expelled from Spain and Portugal. Rooms open off a blue-painted courtyard that served as prayer hall and school at once, and the congregation still meets, though only a few hundred Jews remain in the city.

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   Al-Mansour Mosque

   The mosque of the royal kasbah, built between 1185 and 1190 by Yaqub al-Mansur, with a minaret patterned in the interlocking arch motif the Almohads used everywhere. The Saadian Tombs, which were sealed up for two centuries, are immediately behind it.

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   Dar Si Said Museum

   A late nineteenth-century palace built by the brother of the grand vizier, and now the National Museum of Weaving and Carpets. The carved cedar ceilings and the upstairs wedding chamber are as much the point as the Berber rugs laid out beneath them.

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   Bab Dukkala

   The main northwestern gate of the walled city, on the road that comes in from the Doukkala plain towards the Atlantic. A mosque and a market of the same name stand inside it.

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   Medina of Marrakesh

   The walled old city, World Heritage since 1985 along with its two historic gardens. Nineteen kilometres of rammed-earth wall run round it, pink because that is the colour of the local soil, pierced by nine gates and unbroken enough that the medina still ends where it always did.

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   Al-Shorafaa Mosque

   A large Saadian mosque of the 1560s, built when the sultan moved the Jewish quarter to make room for it. The complex around it included a madrasa, a hammam, a library and a public fountain with three basins — two for animals and one for people, which is still there.

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    Bab Doukkala Grand Mosque

    A Saadian mosque of 1557, paid for by Lalla Mas'uda, mother of the sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, and named after the western gate beside it. Its minaret and the fountain and hammam attached to it are the surviving parts of a larger charitable foundation.

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