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.
