BAHIA PALACE

The "palace resplendent" Built in the late nineteenth century by Si Moussa, grand vizier of Sultan Sidi Mohamed Ben Abderrahman in an area known today as the "Riad Zitoun Jdid.

The Bahia Palace has two large gardens, the former is achieved by Si Moussa and the second around 1880 by his son Ba Hmad a vizier, minister who served as regent of sovereigns Hassan and Moulay Abdelaziz. He was the true master of Morocco between 1894 and 1900.

The palace is a masterpiece of Moroccan art. The building, almost solely on the ground floor with one apartment on the first floor menzeh, extends over eight acres.

The BAHIA palace contains the following elements:
a small Riyadh: a garden on which open rooms and niches. Here Ba Hmad received the government people in the large boardroom ceiling painted and perforated. There too were built later, the offices of Marshal Lyautey.

The small courtyard: Four bedrooms opening onto a courtyard open fully tiled with marble and zellidj (tiles) were the private apartments of Ba Hmad and were processed in time Lyautey room officers.
The vast marble courtyard called "Court of Honor" is a huge yard (50 mx 30 m) open, paved with marble and zellidj surrounded by a gallery with carved wooden columns, which s' opens a large reception room called Boardroom, the largest palace (20 mx 8 m) and whose ceiling is painted with great beauty.

The great riyad: This is the oldest part of the palace building was the father of Hmad Ba, Si Moussa, completed in 1866-1867 and subsequently redeveloped. This riyad stands, in addition to the garden by two