The first feeling
one has when entering this particular imperial capital is of pure
enchantment. We are bewitched-falling under the spell of the place
and its people, folk artists to their very souls who have only
one aim in view to make a stay in their city as entrancing an
experience as possible. With its world-famous square, Jamaâ El
Fna, the beacon city of the Almoravids was founded in about 1070
with a view to controlling traffic from the nearby Atlas. It was
from this rudimentary settlement that the earliest conquests were
launched. Abou Bakr, head of the Almoravids, undertook the construction
of a Kasbah, nicknamed the "stone castle" only yards away from
the present site of the Koutoubia.
Marrakesh became the capital of a vast empire in
the reign of Youssef Ben Tachfine-an empire which, under the Almohads,
reached as for as the frontiers of Libya.
The Badii Palace bas long been regarded as a wonder
of the Muslim world. It was the sovereign Ahmed El Mansour Dahbi
who undertook construction of the palace following his victory
over the Portuguese in the year 986 of the hejira (1578), a victory
well-known in the Western World under the name of the Battle of
the Three Kings. The major construction work went on for sixteen
years. Other marvels to be found in the Red City are the Dar Si
Said museum, containing much quintessential Moroccan art and displaying
the glittering array of gold and marble ornaments collected by
Ahmed El Mansour (1578-1603), greatest of Saadian rulers, the
Medersa Ben Youssef, a Koranic school founded in 1570 by Moulay
Abdallah and a truc masterpiece of Merinid architecture, the Agdal
gardens, laid out in the 12th century during the reign of Abdelmoumen
and the Menara, a magnificent artificial lake fringed with flowers
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