| History & Patrimony |
| Essaouira, the bastion of Bab Marrakech |
Where to sleep in Essaouira? |
| The Bab Marrakech bastion was used formerly as ammunition warehouse.... |
It is the most significant defensive building on the land side. It appears in the form of a circular battery covering an angle of 270° and dominating almost all the eastern accesses of the medina of Essaouira.
The 35 m bastion occupies a surface of approximately 1000m2. Its structure, firmly built of stones and rocks, is made of a double external wall connected to a core by a sequence of arched alcoves cutting out the area in 11 identical compartments all communicating by a gallery in gangways. |
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