Great Courtyard / Bahia Palace (4 pics)

A.k.a. the Back Courtyard or 'Court of Honour'. Materials include marble, zellige, and timber colonnade. Palace converted from earlier buildings by Moroccan architect El Mekki in the late C19. Rooms around this court were originally designed for Ahmed Ben Moussa's concubines and their children. Rue Riad Zitoun el Jdid, Medina, Marrakech, Morocco.

Great Courtyard / detail

Colonnade / Bahia Palace

Palais de la Bahia / Cour d'honneur

Vintage postcard in my collection mailed 1928 from the Medina of Marrakech to Highgate, London. Printed by Levy et Neurdein réunis, 44 R. Letellier, Paris. 

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