The fourth stop on the “Tour of Moroccan Architecture” is the Badia Palace, not to be confused with the Bahia Palace that I wrote about in my last post! The Bahia Palace was built during the reign of the Saadian sultan Ahmed el Mansour in the 1500s.
The palace is only visited by tourists now, but in the 1500s it was used to host festivities and guest foreign ambassadors, writers, artists, poets, and other members of society’s elite. Although the palace has clearly seen better days, you can kind of imagine how grand it looked 500 years ago, a massive open courtyard with wide pools, surrounded by tall walls. Now, only one pool remains filled, the rest contain gardens instead, and much of the materials that once made the palace so grand, like Italian marble, has been stolen and reused in palaces in Meknes in the 1700s.
Even though all the remains of the palace in some areas are crumbling walls and archways, it’s still fun to see it and imagine what it once might have been.One thing we loved about the palace were the dozens of storks that called the palace walls their home. I think they were almost one metre tall!
The walls of the palace were supported by four tall pavilions on each corner, one of which visitors could climb up. The view over the city from the top was amazing.
Victoria 
Beautiful picture of you both