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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 marblesand a lots of gold brought from Sudan. It also has a small underground, tunnel like jail where the king kept his prisoners. It's about four cells. Unfortunately this feeric palace, which construction took approximately 25 years, was soon torn apart by the alaouite Sultan Mawlay Ismail who used the materials to decorate his own palace in Meknes.

El Badi palace