El Badi Palace

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El Badi Palace, located in Marrakech (Morocco), consists nowadays of the remnants of a magnificent palace built by the Saadian king Ahmed el-Mansour in 1578. The original building is thought to have consisted of 360 rooms, a yard of 135m by 110m and a pool of 90m by 20m, richly decorated with Italian marbles, Indian onyxes and Irish granites. Unfortunately this feeric palace, which construction took approximately 25 years, was soon torn apart by the alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismael who used the materials to decorate his own palace in Meknes. In one of the refurbished pavillions, the Koutoubia minbar is now on exhibition.